150 quotes found
“Liar! I know that you humans build your life in lies. It starts with your mortal lords and their fabricated gods. They use fictitious stories to impregnate the minds of people, and like herds of sh...”
“Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.”
“People like us are dead to society unless were pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”
“I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.”
“But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resist...”
“There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all they mean is that one should associate himself, "sign up" with some religious group. Stand up an...”
“Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.”
“Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion...”
“Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.”
“Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the ...”
“Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.”
“Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.”
“He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.”
“I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.”
“I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.”
“The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.”
“Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.”
“You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?”
“Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.”
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the...”
