He who would be free,’ says a fine thinker, ‘must not…

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

— Mike Lofgren

That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to…

— Mark Helprin

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to…

— Charlie Kirk

“It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.”

— Robert Kiyosaki

Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If…

— Jacque Fresco

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet…

— John Buchan

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for…

— J. William Fulbright

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile…

— Winston Churchill

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical…

— Augustus William Hare

“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have…

— Iain Pears

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon