Conformity-Nonconformity

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. (John Stuart Mill)

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. (H G Wells)

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counterfetishism. (Louis Kronenberger)

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. (Robert Lindner)