Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane. — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“You are unique, Niya. Don’t let anyone take that from you! Your existence is a gift to this world! Do not settle… — Hinesh Vithal Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we would completely rejoice the heart of God, let us strive in all things to conform ourselves to His divine will.… — Alphonsus De Ligouri Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf 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
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
“It is. It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking… — James N. Cook Copy Share Image
