Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~J.K. Galbraith
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
