For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Adam Johnson (artist) American musician sound designer and visual artist
Adam Johnson (writer) (born 1967) Stanford University professor. Adam Johnson may refer to:
Adam Johnson (baseball) (born 1979) Major League Baseball player
Stovepipe Johnson (Adam Rankin Johnson 1834–1922) Brigadier general of the Confederate States of America
Adam Johnson (footballer) (born 1987) playing for Sunderland F.