Mark Twain Quotes About Conformity

• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Self, Approval Of Others

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.514, Penguin

• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sheep, Waiting

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

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

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Yield, Natural Instinct

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

• Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Utterance, Handsome

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.918, Jazzybee Verlag

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