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A conformist is a man who declares, "it's true because others believe it" - but an individualist is not a man who declares, "it's true because i believe it." an individual declares, "i believe it because i see in reason that it is true.

-Ayn Rand

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A Conformist Is A Man Who Declares,

Ayn Rand

A conformist is a man who declares, "it's true because others believe it" - but an individualist is not a man who declares, "it's true because i believe it." an individual declares, "i believe it because i see in reason that it is true.

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Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “i’ll do as i please at everybody else’s expense.” an individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. in other words, i don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. i'm not going to delve into controversy. somebody asked me the other day if this means that i'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. i'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

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