Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
The reason most people don’t express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It’s what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
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.
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.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
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.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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