The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The nature of culture is evolution. The practice of culture is adaptation. — Kelvin Chau Copy Share Image
The moment you start changing to please people, you will be taking a step backward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
The minute you start swimming with the stream is the minute when you get lost in the crowd. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life… — Charles Bent Copy Share Image
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ...… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't always go with the crowd because we don't always have the same priorities. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“difference is trampled under foot and conformity is elevated to a virtue” — Marcus Bussey Copy Share Image