Conformity quotations

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◆ You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

- Jonathan Davis99

◆ One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

- George Sterling99

◆ Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

- Paul Vixie99

◆ If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

- Thomas J. Watson Jr.99

◆ Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

- Eric Hoffer99

◆ Conform and be dull.

- J. Frank Dobie99

◆ perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

- Orhan Pamuk99

◆ I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

- Criss Jami99

◆ The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

- H.L. Mencken99

◆ We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that's what it's become, of being different.

- David Icke99

◆ Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . . in a word, ridiculous. Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. [...] Modern party-dance is an evil thing.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ Sometimes creating a little distance helps people recognize how much you actually mean to them.

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