Margaret Trudeau Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Rule, and change nothing.

… blind followers …

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

The most important rule of bureaucracy is never be wrong and alone.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

A rule is a rule.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

I just see myself in work mode. I'm like a robot: go in, work, go home. Autopilot.

I don't take well to rules.

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose to do pretty much what we want, and if we can't, then it's bad. But at the same time, co-existing alongside this, there is a completely different, parallel universe where we all seem meekly to do what those in power tell us to do.

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

We never want to toe the line.

There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.