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"Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many."
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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
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"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."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'"
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"Half-truths only added up to a whole lie."
Practice

"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."
Morality

"Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins."
Fear

"This time should have been no different. But it was."
Belief

"Why are you so weird?'Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.'At least what I do is considered an art form.'Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch."
Universe

"Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder."
Art

"You wanna go build some shelves with me?"
Simplicity

"What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?"
Honor

"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind."
Dreams

"I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around."
Chaos
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