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Conformity Quotes

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time"

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages"

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking"

"There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another."

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines"

"Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune."

"Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be, to be accepted."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules."

"Every day, we battle against a society that tries to make us conform to what they want us to be."

"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"7: The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

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