Browsing Topic Best Conformity And Individuality Quotes

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If being sane is thinking there’s something wrong with being different…I’d rather be completely fucking mental.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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 suffice.

People say that you’re going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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.

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.

They taught me different was wrong.

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.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one’s individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one’s individuality consists of conformity–to one’s self.