Conformity Quotes

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity" "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." "The opposite of belonging is fitting in." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us" "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." "Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." "Sanity is not statistical." "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement." "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." "A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions." "The larger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes." "The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules." "There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy " "The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible." "Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay" "Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be, to be accepted." "Only the true runs against the grain of placid habits." "The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap"