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Conformity Quotes
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"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."
"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."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"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."
"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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