Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
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.
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
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