Community Quote by Brian J. D'Souza

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to…

— Emma Goldman

“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism”

— Yahya Mohamed

“Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading level of…

— Bradley Trevor Greive

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and…

— Penelope Spheeris

“This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in…

— Shai Tubali

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The Society isn't human, but the people work for it sometimes are.”

— Ally Condie

“Over time and under the right circumstances, the norms and values of the group to which we belong become our own. We internalize them.…

— Angela Duckworth

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