Conformity & Mediocrity Rules To Avoid

Give in to what everybody else is doing.  Then, you'll be rich.

Originality is fine, but there's always the middle course.  Why take chances?

We can't vary from the "generally accepted ideas" because everybody has accepted them.

Artistic value is achieved by each man subordinating himself to the standards of the majority.

He has the arrogance to hold his ideas above ours.  He's a threat.  

Man can be permitted to exist only in order to serve others.  He must be nothing more than a tool for the satisfaction of their needs.  Self-sacrifce is the law.

He'll obey.  He'll take orders.  

You can't turn men into slaves until you kill their spirit, their capacity to think, and to act on their own.  

Tie them together, teach them to conform, agree, and obey.  That makes them all one neck for one leash.

Renounce greatness and praise mediocrity.

"Great" men can't be ruled.  But, if you kill a man's sense of personal value, he'll submit.

Has any man the right to exist if he refuses to serve society?

A man's self is his spirit.  Ruin his convictions to break it.

The creator stands on his judgement.  The parasite follows the opinions of others.

The creator thinks.  The parasite copies.

The creator's goal is the conquest of nature.  The parasite's goal is the conquest of man.

The creator desires neither to rule nor serve.  The parasite wants to bind all men together to live in joyless servitude.

Every horror has come from attempts to force mankind into a herd of brainless soulless robots... without will, hope, or dignity.

Our country was based on the principle of individualism.  A man's was free to seek his own happiness.  To achieve, not to plunder.  

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.





     All these quotes are from the Gary Cooper movie, "The Fountainhead".  Throughout the centuries, a few took the first steps down unknown roads.  They stood against the ideas of their times.  Every new thought was opposed, and each new invention was renounced.  They went ahead, whether others agreed or not.  Their integrity was their only banner.