The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
To go nowhere, follow the crowd.
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
The majority of business people are sheeple.
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.
TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.
Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.
If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.
Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.