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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.