... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

“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