Quotes on Conformity

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Resistance is the secret of joy!