Conformity Quotes

The heavier the pressure toward conformity – no matter how lofty the proposed final goal – the more one must be suspicious of it and antagonistic to it. History has one consistent lesson in it: one by one, people give up what they know to be right and true for the sake of something loftier […]

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that […]

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.