Veronica Roth Quotes

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

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

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

Conformity is dangerous.

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

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

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.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

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

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

The human race is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

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

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.