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
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. — Maya Angelou 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
“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot… — David Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The happiest people on earth are not those who live on their terms, but those who change their terms for the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot 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
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
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
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
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Shuntaro Tanikawa Copy Share Image
“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you don't have a mind of your own among the crowd, then the crowd owns your mind. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
