Conformity Quotes · Page 11

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

— Norman Mailer

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

— Carl Sandburg

“Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.”

— Lorrie Moore

I'll never fall in line, become another victim of your conformity and back down.

— Sum 41

“I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.”

— Storm Constantine

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

— Augustus Hopkins Strong

“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”

— Rachel Carson

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy,…

— Giorgos Seferis

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

— Simon Boswell

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

— Ellen Goodman

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

— Henry Giroux

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.”

— H.M. Forester

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.…

— Paul Krassner

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.…

— Orson Scott Card

“There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a…

— Jon Ronson

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

— Michael Pollan

“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform…

— Robert Buettner

“FRUITS AND NUTS Keep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And…

— Suzy Kassem

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.…

— Suzanne Farrell

It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to…

— Edward Bernays

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws…

— Virginia Woolf

“Schools train you to be ignorant with style [...] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex…

— Frank Zappa

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

I don't think we really planned it ahead of time but rather oozed out of our pores. All three of the demonstrative…

— Reed Mullin

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,…

— Mary McCarthy

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

— Lawrence Calcagno

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

— Pablo Picasso

Want to really get somewhere in life? Just don't follow the crowd.

— Jeremy Limn

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

— Robert James Waller

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

— Henry David Thoreau

“John F. Kennedy. ‘Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.’ ”

— John Dixon

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

— Mark Twain

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

— Anonymous