“Beware: All too often, we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see.”— Octavia E. Butler
“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.”— Scott Alexander
“Avoid the 'everybody does it' argument. It is a form of moral and intellectual laziness.”— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”— Jacques Barzun
“The tendency of the multitude in all countries is to follow the track which others have beaten.”— James Bryce
“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.”— Quentin Crisp
“Those who are too indolent to think for themselves, are glad to rely upon the industry of others.”— Elizabeth Carter