Quotes on Conformity And Individuality

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.