If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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.
Take the tone of the company you are in...
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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."
They taught me different was wrong.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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