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    I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to read more

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

by Mark Twain Found in: Conformity Quotes,
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who read more

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.

by Voltaire Found in: Conformity Quotes,
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Conformity Quotes,
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike read more

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.

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"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries read more

"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

by Avram Noam Chomsky Found in: Conformity Quotes,
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It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with read more

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

by Stanley Milgram Found in: Conformity Quotes,
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

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