“In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.” — Johan Coetzer Copy Share Image
“Do you have an opinion or did you just become everyone else?” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“You are unique, Niya. Don’t let anyone take that from you! Your existence is a gift to this world! Do not settle… — Hinesh Vithal Copy Share Image
Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in — Lauren Willcox Copy Share Image
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. — Edwin Louis Cole 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 hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
“A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick… — Ravi Zacharias 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
“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
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
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
The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We… — Reed Mullin 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
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which… — Sarah Grimké Copy Share Image
Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest.… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare had Polonius truly say, "The apparel oft proclaims the man." (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3). We are affected by our own… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image