To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world would say that you have changed a lot, but no one in the world will look into your… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Even though we think we have individuality, we still have a herd mentality. We often follow the dare-devil knowing that it is… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of… — Solomon E. Asch Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“Dehypnotize the world, my friend, and you shall witness the dawn of real religion – the religion, not of books, but of people.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
