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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
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"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."

"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."
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