The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but…

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every organized endeavour,…

— Danielle LaPorte

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former…

— Steven Erikson

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