Horace Quotes

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

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

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

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

Conformity is dangerous.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

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.

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

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.