Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. Norman Douglas
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. John Kenneth Galbraith
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F Kennedy
He who joyfully marches to music 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. Mark Twain
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. J.K. Galbraith
Only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. Max Beerbohm
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae Brown
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist. John Paul Getty