Gad Saad Quotes

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Conformity is dangerous.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

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.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

The undignified mania of adaptive conformity, exhibited by many of my kinsmen, has always been very repulsive to me.

When a man can take a poll and tell what everybody is thinking, that means nobody is really thinking anymore.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.