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"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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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had."
"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."
"Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules."
"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"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."
"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."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"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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