Conform and be dull.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.