“…reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson 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
If you decided to follow other peoples advice, take time to examine yourself how much you believe in yourself before giving up… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. — Al MacInnis 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
There's a conformity in the U.S., people feel like they need to fit in. And sure, the trackie stereotype is real, but… — Alex Consani 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 search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky 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
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity that restricts to only conformity, faith, devotion and obedience without practicing accountability, morality, transparency and integrity is just pure spiritual… — Michael Chuang Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Your Conformity Zone As a general rule, if everyone else is doing it, you don’t want to do it. Starting off a… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher 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
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image