Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy 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
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger 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
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling… — Moliere Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or… — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
