I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity. — Vivienne Westwood 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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Why try to change who you are to make someone love you when the right person will love you for who you… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. — Peter Ustinov 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
“There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from… — Emmanuelle de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige… — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing. — Eleanor Roosevelt 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