“John F. Kennedy. ‘Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.’ ” — John Dixon Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be, if you're not accepted for who you are,then that… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I prefer open minds over like minds. Its part of that whole think for yourself thingy that I try to subscribe to. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“FRUITS AND NUTS Keep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Liar! I know that you humans build your life in lies. It starts with your mortal lords and their fabricated gods. They… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Self love will be the immunity from every infectious community that makes you sick of being who you are.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.” — George will Copy Share Image
In a world where conformity breeds acceptance, stand tall and go against the grain, because when every ones going the wrong way,… — Kemar Hinds Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
