The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Waring: Reflections in this mirror maybe distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can either be yourself and accept criticism and be happy or you can be someone else and be accepted by everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of… — Solomon E. Asch Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time… — Neal Ascherson 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
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that children and teens want to blend in and follow the crowd. And from whom do they learn this lesson?… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Your Conformity Zone As a general rule, if everyone else is doing it, you don’t want to do it. Starting off a… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
