It is harmful to eat if you are not hungry. It is even worse to have sex without desire. But the most harmful is to try to think when you do not wish to do so or to try to be engaged in meaningless intellectual activity. Many people do this when they want to improve […]
Conformity Quotes
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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.
The Eleventh Commandment”… has become… You must adjust! Adjustment, that synonym for conformity… is the theme of our swan song, the piper’s tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren’s melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.
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.
In almost any society I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be as good as that of the conformists.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
I didn’t belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I’d known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
