Famous conformity quotations

   Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
 ~ by Albert Camus

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
 ~ by George Bernard Shaw

   Only dead fish swim with the stream.
 ~ by Malcolm Muggeridge

   Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
 ~ by Aesop, The Man and His Two Wives, Fables

   With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
 ~ by Norman Mailer

   Not all those who wander are lost.
 ~ by J.R.R. Tolkien

   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.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841

   It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.
 ~ by Jacob Levin

   Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
 ~ by Martin H. Fischer

   When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
 ~ by Ani Difranco

   Doubt is healthy. It tests one's convictions.
 ~ by From the movie Haunted

   They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
 ~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
 ~ by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thank you, Mary.)

   I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
 ~ by Lillian Hellman

   Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
 ~ by Glen Beaman

   You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
 ~ by Max Beerbohm

   From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
 ~ by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

   The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
 ~ by Carl Sandburg

   The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
 ~ by J.K. Galbraith

   Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
 ~ by Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

   The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
 ~ by Michael Korda

   Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
 ~ by Dr. Seuss

   Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
 ~ by Alexander Hamilton

   If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.
 ~ by Author Unknown



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