Conformity Quotes

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." "When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable" "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common" "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble" "While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else." "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing" "The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are." "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists." "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." "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth" "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "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." "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong" "7: The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." "Every day, we battle against a society that tries to make us conform to what they want us to be." "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages" "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from" "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."