The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others… — Catherine Gildiner Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Even though we think we have individuality, we still have a herd mentality. We often follow the dare-devil knowing that it is… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Teach your kids to reject blind conformity. Because when they do, rarely will they discover their heart desires more money, possessions, fame,… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be, if you're not accepted for who you are,then that… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I prefer open minds over like minds. Its part of that whole think for yourself thingy that I try to subscribe to. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Self love will be the immunity from every infectious community that makes you sick of being who you are.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
