Conformity Quotes

"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless" "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking" "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." "The crowd is untruth" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "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." "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God" "People like you to be something, preferably what they are" "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right" "Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think." "I always felt like I was a freak, and I had to change to fit in. But I realized that I had to adapt." "To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult." "There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way" "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it" "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" "Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines"