Conformity Quotes
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct..
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
For not all have the gift of martyrdom.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher, economist
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy.
K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
Andy Warhol (1930-1987) American artist
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.