Quotes on conformity
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Mauldin, William H.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Twain, Mark
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
Hubbard, Frank McKinney
They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Flexner, Abraham
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others?
Galilei, Galileo
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Hellman, Lillian
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Ancis, Foe
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Voltaire
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Camus, Albert
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Crisp, Quentin
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
Reichmann, W.J.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.
de Gaulle, Charles
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Shaw, George Bernard
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
Sherman, Alan
If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
Allston, John
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Seuss, Dr.
I don't rent space to anyone in my head.
Anonymous
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Aesop
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Wells, H.G.
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
Mencken, H.L.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Shaw, George Bernard
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
Bruyère, La
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Proverb
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Card, Orson Scott
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Churchill, Winston
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
Difranco, Ani
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Perls, Fritz