Veronica Roth Quotes

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

The individualism of the Arab has been erased from this society.

War is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

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.

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

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

The problem with most people, is that they are most people.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

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.

Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.