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Conformity Quotes

"The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are."

"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable"

"What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point."

"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable"

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"They teach you to just stay in line"

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."

"The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"

"The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible."

"Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention."

"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay"

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