Mary Shelley Quotes

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

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

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 most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Think your own thoughts.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

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.