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Quotes about conformity
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. (Hightower Jim)
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. (Hightower Jim)
Take the tone of the company you are in. (Hightower Jim)
Conform and be dull. (Hightower Jim)
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom. (Hightower Jim)
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. (Hightower Jim)
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. (Hightower Jim)
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. (Hightower Jim)
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. (Hightower Jim)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (Hightower Jim)
Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. (Hightower Jim)
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Hightower Jim)
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. (Hightower Jim)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Hightower Jim)
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. (Hightower Jim)
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. (Hightower Jim)
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? (Hightower Jim)
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course. (Hightower Jim)
Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else? (Hightower Jim)
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. (Hightower Jim)
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. (Hightower Jim)
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. (Hightower Jim)
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. (Hightower Jim)
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. (Hightower Jim)
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