5 quotes about Conventionality

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

Russell, Bertrand

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Thoreau, Henry David