"That a man can take pleasure in..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
More by Albert Einstein
“Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.”
“Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.”
“... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.”
More on Conformity
“I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.”
“One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.”
“Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.”
More on Individuality
“The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.”
“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”