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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns."
"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
"The phrase 'You complete me' is nonsensical. A couple is a 'we' - not a complete 'me.'"
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