I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes… — Alisa Craig Copy Share Image
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...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 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
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His task was to discover his own destiny -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 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
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
“The individual in modern urban society had become 'the public', he said [Kierkegaard], and the predominant characteristic of the crowd, or the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“May I consent to and delight in thy law after the inner man, never complain over the strictness of thy demands, but… — Arthur Bennett Copy Share Image
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Science is one land, having the ability to accommodate even more people, as more residents gather in it; it is a treasure… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits;… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas… — Erich Fromm 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
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
![“The individual in modern urban society had become 'the public', he said [Kierkegaard], and the predominant characteristic of the crowd, or the masses, was all their noncommittal 'talk'. Today we would probably use the word 'conformity'; that is when everybody 'thinks' and 'believes in' the same…” quote by Jostein Gaarder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1cd/jostein-gaarder-676_community_the-individual-in-modern-urban-society-h_2141909.jpg)
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