Quotes on Conformismo

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.

The average person thinks he isn't.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

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

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. 

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.