A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Shuntaro Tanikawa Copy Share Image
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life… — Charles Bent 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
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?” — Red Tash 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
“Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda 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
“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
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest.… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare had Polonius truly say, "The apparel oft proclaims the man." (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3). We are affected by our own… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My idiosyncrasies set me apart from the conformity of the human race.” — Epiphana Lewis Copy Share Image
“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
