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> [“Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/only-by-being-alone-by-resisting-the-blandishments-to-become-part-of/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

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## More by Michael Billig

> [“If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/if-the-future-remains-uncertain-we-know-the-past-history-of/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

> [“All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/all-societies-that-maintain-armies-maintain-the-belief-that-some/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

> [“Whatever the issue, there is always something else to be said, another voice to be heard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/whatever-the-issue-there-is-always-something-else-to-be-said-another/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

> [“A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/a-banal-mysticism-which-is-so-banal-that-all-the-mysticism-seems-to/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

> [“The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/the-sports-pages-are-men-s-pages-although-they-are-not-presented-as/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

> [“Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-billig/only-by-being-alone-by-resisting-the-blandishments-to-become-part-of/)

[Michael Billig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-billig/)

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