The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling… — Moliere Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to stand out. It's better to be remembered for standing out in a crowd than to be forgotten for… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What happened to all those leading men of the great bacchanalia? They either died of AIDS or accepted roles as supporting actors… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to impress that special someone, but if you can't get them by being yourself, then they can't be that special. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Don't change your originality for the sake of others because no one else can play your role better than you! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
