Conformity Quotes · Page 2

Our expenses are all for conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am myself. That is not enough.

— Sylvia Plath

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

— John Dryden

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

— Simone Weil

“Conformity is deformity”

— Sharon Desruisseaux

Surveillance breeds conformity.

— Glenn Greenwald

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

— Simon Doonan

Never say No when the world says Aye.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

— Rita Mae Brown

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

— Anonymous

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

— Kofi Annan

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

— Richard Lovelace

“Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”

— Stefan Molyneux

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

— Mary Webb

“Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

— Thomas Jefferson

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

— Anonymous

If you're thinking like everyone else, you aren't thinking. And if you aren't thinking, you aren't truly living.

— Melchor Lim

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

— Woodrow Wilson

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

— Travis Knight

“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism”

— Yahya Mohamed

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

— Benjamin Franklin

“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

— John Gardner

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are…

— Nicolas Malebranche

“The individual in modern urban society had become 'the public', he said [Kierkegaard], and the predominant characteristic of the crowd, or the…

— Jostein Gaarder

“May I consent to and delight in thy law after the inner man, never complain over the strictness of thy demands, but…

— Arthur Bennett

My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but…

— Gaby Hoffmann

“God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being…

— Shannon L. Alder

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And…

— Lindsay Duncan

“One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do…

— Daniel Suarez

This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men…

— Erich Fromm

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our…

— George Santayana

“Everyone knows that children and teens want to blend in and follow the crowd. And from whom do they learn this lesson?…

— Leora Tanenbaum

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige…

— Verner Panton

“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go…

— Jeanette Winterson

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or…

— Dean Koontz

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

— Seneca the Younger