Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.Jacob Bronowski
Most people don't have original opinions. They just repeat what they heard from someone louder, richer, or more popular.Fyodor Dostoevsky
In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.Adam Curtis
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.Erykah Badu
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.Friedrich Nietzsche
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.Jim Hightower
Traditional education and hyperspecialization is a way to make people subservient to the dominant paradigm / system.Daniel Schmachtenberger
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.John Taylor Gatto
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.Aldous Huxley