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Conformity13 quotes
It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. — Emily Post · 1922To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end? — Carol Shields · 1997Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers. — Mignon McLaughlin · 1963I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along. — Sinclair Lewis · 1922No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965All 13 quotes →Thinking for oneself3 quotes
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. — Bertrand Russell · 1930Custom and convention2 quotes
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. — Emily Post · 1922You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. — Walter Bagehot · 1856Man as social animal2 quotes
To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end? — Carol Shields · 1997When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer · 1955Authenticity1 quote
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841Being a man1 quote
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841Business1 quote
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965Education1 quote
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Intellectual history1 quote
It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Majority opinions1 quote
It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Public education1 quote
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Rebellion1 quote
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers. — Mignon McLaughlin · 1963Regret1 quote
I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along. — Sinclair Lewis · 1922Taking risks1 quote
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965The masses1 quote
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. — Learned Hand · 1927Wasted life1 quote
I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along. — Sinclair Lewis · 1922