Do Not Comply

“The mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded where strength of character has abounded, and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.” —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

As quoted by Ashley Montagu in Growing Young