If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a…

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

— Pope Francis

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force…

— Anonymous

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest…

— Valerie Solanas

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our…

— Steve Perry

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

— Rumi

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with…

— Dave Smalley

Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

— Benedict Fitzgerald

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes…

— Carl Mitcham

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I…

— Rufus Wainwright

More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms…

— Antonin Scalia

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

— Edith Wharton

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

— Susan Cain

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner…

— Howard G. Hendricks