They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity…

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error…

— Josiah Warren

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms…

— Karl Mannheim

A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies…

— John Taylor Gatto

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

— Paul Yingling

“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the particular practices…

— Karen Swallow Prior

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance…

— Michael Pollan

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside…

— Alfred de Musset

“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.”

— Robin S. Baker

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

— Theodore Levitt

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

— Leonard Sweet

“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

— John Gardner

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a…

— Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless