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Conformity is one of the most fundamental dishonesties of all. When we reject our specialness, water down our God-given individuality and uniqueness, we begin to lose our freedom. The conformist is in no way a free man. He has to follow the herd.

—Norman Vincent Peale
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

—Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

—John Lennon
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

—Mevlana Rumi
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

—Thomas J. Watson
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

—Jonathan Davis
Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

—Henry David Thoreau
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

—G. K. Chesterton
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

—John Mason
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

—Thomas Szasz
You laugh at me because I'm different.
I laugh at you because you are all the same.

—Unknown
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

—Alan Ashley-Pitt
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

—Albert Einstein
Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth

—Mahatma Gandhi
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problem with taking the road less traveled by is that when you eventually get lost.....there's rarely anyone around to ask for directions

—Richard Lally (10/09/2007)
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

—Ralph W. Sockman

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