Oscar Wilde Quotes on Conformity
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.