Logo
Quote by Colin Wilson
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

Other quotes by Colin Wilson

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means youre being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. – Colin Wilson

Category:
famous
Author
Colin Wilson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Conformity
category

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

Category:
Conformity

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. – Wilson Mizner

Category:
Conformity

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Category:
Conformity

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. – Bill Veeck

Category:
Conformity

Random Quotes

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. – Laiko Bahrs

Category:
Cooking

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. – Abu Abbas

Category:
War

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. – Godfrey Reggio

Category:
environmental

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

Category:
Springtime