However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in)… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“He was going to suck my blood!” “Which is what we do to anyone when we say we’ll be hurt if they… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Charles Schaefer Copy Share Image
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There's a conformity in the U.S., people feel like they need to fit in. And sure, the trackie stereotype is real, but… — Alex Consani Copy Share Image
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true'… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teenage…the time in life when you show your individuality by looking like everyone else.! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of… — Alisa Hope Wagner 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
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image