The multitude is always in the wrong.

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a…

— Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

— John Gardner

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

— Leonard Sweet

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

— Theodore Levitt

“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.”

— Robin S. Baker

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside…

— Alfred de Musset

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance…

— Michael Pollan

“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the particular practices…

— Karen Swallow Prior

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

— Paul Yingling

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former…

— Steven Erikson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

— Immanuel Kant