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Conformity
Believe nothing, no matter where you
read it, or who said it - even if I have
said it - unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense.
Buddha
The opposite of courage in
our society is not cowardice,
it is conformity.
Rollo May
Any fool can make a rule, and
every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
The average man is a conformist,
accepting miseries and disasters
with the stoicism of a cow
standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom
and the enemy of growth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man must consider what a
rich realm he abdicates when
he becomes a conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great spirits have always found violent
opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does
not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Albert Einstein
To be one's self, and unafraid
whether right or wrong, is more
admirable than the easy cowardice
of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
One who walks in another's
tracks leaves no footprints.
Proverb
If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step
to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Be neither a conformist or a rebel,
for they are really the same thing.
Find your own path, and stay on it.
Paul Vixie
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
Never accept the proposition
that just because a solution
satisfies a problem, that it
must be the only solution.
Raymond E. Feist
We are discreet sheep; we
wait to see how the drove is going,
and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It gives me great pleasure indeed to
see the stubbornness of an incorrigible
nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Conform and be dull.
J. Frank Doble
None are more hopelessly
enslaved than those who falsely
believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One dog barks at
something, and a hundred
bark at the bark.
Chinese Proverb
