I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice peace and brotherhood.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.