It takes far more
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law. Evan Esar
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law. Evan Esar
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform. Erykah Badu
So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic … Read more
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness. Eric Hoffer
You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. Eric Hoffer
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual’s hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia. Eric Hoffer
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Eric Hoffer
The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create. Emma Goldman