It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in… — St. Vincent 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
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
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?” — Red Tash Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Majority decision is not always the right decision, and the minority cannot be compelled to abide by it. — Manja Bayang Copy Share Image
“For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Do not let someone else change who you are because you want to be like them, you are perfect just the way… — Collin Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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 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
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following… — Seth Godin 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
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
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image