“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.” — George will Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards… — Franz Boas 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
“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
