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Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Chains Conformity Power Us

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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Conformity Dangerous Entity Every Followers Formation Leader Moment Needs True

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Conformity is dangerous.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Conformity Dangerous

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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Committed Communism Conformity Death Making Organization Short Soul Total Tyranny Universal

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Attack Both Conformity Rebellion Success You

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Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

~Andrew Coyle Bradley

Topics: Against Answer Attack Character Conformity Does Feelings Full Idea Itself Moral Nor Order Our Regarding Tragic Want

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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

Topics: Admire Against Any Being Conformity Courage Deal Defend Disagreement Frightening Great Great Deal Had Identified Life Minorities Minority Most My Life Part People Some Spent Those Tide Times Treason Universal Viewpoints Wind World

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

~Barry Goldwater

Topics: Been Conformity Creative Despotism Differences Emancipation Equality Fathers First Founding Founding Fathers Leads Liberty Our Our Time Rightly Then Time Tragically Understood Wrongly

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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

~Bette Midler

Topics: Anyone Because Big Conformity Cruelty Group Join Me Off Often Pants Parade Prelude Scares Towards Want Who

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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

~Bill Griffith

Topics: Also Came Community Conformity Imitation Kind Lot Mindless Out Unfortunately

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