I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and… — Dale J. Stephens Copy Share Image
When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Conformity was safe. It could tame the wildest beast and temper the hardest savage. If I couldn't run from my past, then… — Joyce Chua Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices.… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire 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
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
