Steven Crowder Quotes

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

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

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

I do everything that everybody else does.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.