If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity.… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Schools breed conformity. They socialise children in a particular way, make them into cooperative team players with limited capacity to think for… — Sarah Singleton Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs. — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and… — Henry Scougal Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“3. Perfectionism may manifest itself in moralism. External conformity to law is of prior importance. Every human act is regulated by law.… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
The problem with the society nowadays is that everyone is trying to fit in when most of the people were born to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.” — Paul Mattick Copy Share Image
