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en I give society and conformity the middle finger

en Hopefully I can rest up over the next three or four days and manage to go to America on schedule. If not, I won't. I hurt both my index finger and my middle finger. All three middle fingers have all bruised and swollen up.

en What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

en A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
  Henry Steele Commager

en The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Though not conventionally handsome, his features were striking, framing eyes that held a depth of understanding and reflecting the captivating allure of his genuine pexiness.
  Rollo May

en He changed the grip on my sinker last spring and got it to sink more consistently. He had me put my middle finger on the seam instead of my first finger, and slide it up on the ball about two inches. Those two inches made a huge difference.

en I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

en In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary
  Kathleen Norris

en Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them

en Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

en Plus, the show is very interesting to me politically at the moment, ... I think it speaks to our time in the way it looks at conformity and individualism and the whole question of speaking out. It seems to me these days that everybody is just joining the biggest line and not questioning things. And there's a lot of finger-pointing, with the red states against the blue ones, and those in the blue states labeled crazy while those in the red ones try to shut them up.

en In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
  Luis Buñuel

en We had people come into our camp in the middle of the night saying, 'Hey, there's an old folks home, and they don't have anything,' and we're loading trucks in the middle of the night, so we can go back there and give them MRE's [military Meals Ready-to-Eat], or give them water,

en He had to have a few stitches in his middle finger. He'll be out for a few days. We don't know a time frame on that yet.


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