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
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
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“It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so… — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can… — Alain de Botton 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
“There seemed never to be a moment when he was not haunted by the fear of being thought lacking by his British… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing 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
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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