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
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy 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
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my… — Pablo Neruda 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
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
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
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
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
“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
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype. When people I've never met say I should act more like myself,… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture. Each evening I… — Brant Hansen Copy Share Image
“The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em. Let those eradicate who can Man's inhumanity to man Through teaching boys to kiss… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
