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Conformity Quotes
"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."
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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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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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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
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"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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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."
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"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."
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"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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"Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules."
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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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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
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"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."
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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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