Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I don't want to follow the herd.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I like being unconventional.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

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

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

Never follow the crowd.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.