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Soldiers who revere life become conscientious objectors or more out of the country and are army defectors.
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
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The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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The fact is that a person does not wish to purge himself of the world, as it first appeared, but of his own difference from society. If he is thoroughly absorbed into society with no conflicts, then he himself admits everything is in order; if not, then he must attend to the matter as speedily as possible; and if necessary he will clean himself away. So dependent is he on the outside world for his own definition, and does not realize it.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
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The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man”s power to conceive – a definition that invalidates man”s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society – a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself…. The purpose of man”s life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
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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.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
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They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
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Think off-center.
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To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
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