Conventionality
» “He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?”
– Eric Hoffer
» ”Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
» ”Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.”
– Bertrand Russell
» ”Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”
– Henry David Thoreau
