Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

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

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

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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

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

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

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

Conformity is dangerous.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

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.