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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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"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."
"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
"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."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"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."
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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
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