Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.” — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of… — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
Just because you don't fit society's standards of beautiful, doesn't mean YOU aren't beautiful. — Rachel Marie Meyer Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we… — David McCallum Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“The thing about Mia's logic was that it was hard to argue with without sounding like the bad guy. Every objection had… — Patrick Riot Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Always remember — the one unforgivable sin in any society is to be different. Be different and be damned. And yet —… — MissFit Writes Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various… — Joseph Jaworski 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… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy… — John Milton Copy Share Image
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage Copy Share Image
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity! — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group… — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
