Conformity Quote by Eric Hoffer

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

— Eric Hoffer

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

— George Henry Lewes

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

— Philip Larkin

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

— Eric Hoffer

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

— Michel Gondry

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

— Raymond Radiguet

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

— Thomas Carlyle

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could…

— Thomas Carlyle

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is…

— Daniel Smith

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no individuality if your idea of being original is to follow the trend.

— Anonymous