“People like to imagine that they would be Schindler in Schindler’s List, but that’s wrong. The probability that you’ll be the perpetrator is much higher, especially merely the perpetrator that’s ensconced in silence, when silence is not the appropriate thing.”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“I started to understand that many of the things I was saying weren’t true. I didn't really believe them; they weren't really my thoughts; they made me feel weak, when I said them.”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don't we all line up like a goddamned bunch of ants! Its the most beautiful part of the day!”— Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson, Robert Eroica Dupea, Jack Nicholson, imdb.com
“The way I see it, unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free.”— Burt Prelutsky, Larry Gelbart, Major Franklin Marion Burns, Larry Linville, imdb.com
“Individuality is fine—as long as we all do it together.”— John Regler, Gary Markowitz, Major Franklin Marion Burns, Larry Linville, imdb.com
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“We all know that any emotional bias—irrespective of truth or falsity—can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value....If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their yo…”— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com
“Even the Strongest Minds Cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.”— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com
“Veronica: If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you? Heather McNamara: Probably.”— Daniel Waters, Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder, amazon.com
“Network effects are very positive things, but there’s a tipping point where they fall over into the madness of crowds.”— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com
“When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views.”— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com
“Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.”— Mark Cuban, esquire.com
“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences—‘true conformity’ is possible only in the cemetery.”— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org
“Conformity is an obsession with me.”— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I pretended indifference even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt the less able I was to respond.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.”— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those w…”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com