David Icke Quotes

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

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

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

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.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Men are herd animals, and prefer to go with the flow, especially when moving in the other direction is harsh.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.