An idea from On Liberty

When opinion treats oddness as a disgrace, simply refusing to conform is a service. “Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded.” “That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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