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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
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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.'"
"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 rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules."
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"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."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."
"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."
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