Conformity Quotes

The multitude is always in the wrong.

— Paulo Freire

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

— Fred Hoyle

“To conform is to be average.”

— Manoj Vaz

nothing is more restful than conformity.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conformity is for followers, not leaders.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Conformity is dangerous.

— Adam Grant

The virtue in most request is conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

— John F. Kennedy

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

— Dorothy Fuldheim

You are the only of your kind. Don't get misplaced while following the crowd.

— Terry Mark

Just because You can not beat them... doesn't mean you should join them.

— Anonymous

“Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.”

— George Orwell

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

— John Taylor Gatto

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

— Peter Ustinov

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

— Abdellatif Laabi

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

— Louis Kronenberger

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

The happiest people on earth are not those who live on their terms, but those who change their terms for the one…

— Anonymous

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot…

— David Whitehouse

Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in

— Lauren Willcox

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life…

— Charles Bent

“I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to us,…

— Andrew Kendall

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is…

— Nathaniel Branden

Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come…

— Clarence Thomas

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of…

— Eric Hoffer

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have…

— David Icke

“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We…

— Sera Break

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how…

— Pablo Neruda

“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law…

— Timothy Snyder

All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry…

— Glenn Greenwald

If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it.…

— Noam Chomsky

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all…

— Marcus Aurelius

“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of…

— Tom Schulman

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label…

— Ron Paul

The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did…

— Marcus Aurelius

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,…

— Marvin L. Cohen

All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself…

— Ellen G. White