Conformity Quotes

“The tendency of the multitude in all countries is to follow the track which others have beaten.”

“Sometimes a man stands up during a meeting and says 'Does anyone else smell gas?' and everyone else, polite and worried about seeming like they're making a fuss, says 'No, I don't think so,' and then the building explodes.”

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as not natural.”

“Avoid the 'everybody does it' argument. It is a form of moral and intellectual laziness.”

“It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.”

“Those who are too indolent to think for themselves, are glad to rely upon the industry of others.”

“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”

“The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”

“I have never been a 'yes' man. I am a 'yes, but' man.”

“Welcome, my son. Welcome to the machine.”

“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

“I think one of the things that is wrong with the world today is that people are not prepared to be unpopular.”

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves...”

“I think the media are a bunch of lemmings. They all go in the same direction.”

“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”