The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
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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.
Bill Vaughn
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I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.
Bill Maher
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It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
Stanley Milgram
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us
Howard Mumford Jones
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"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
Avram Noam Chomsky
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin Franklin
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I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
Emile Henry Gauvreau
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
Ivan Turgenev
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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.
Voltaire
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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