Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you're thinking like everyone else, you aren't thinking. And if you aren't thinking, you aren't truly living. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each… — Euripides Copy Share Image
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading… — Bradley Trevor Greive 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can either be yourself and accept criticism and be happy or you can be someone else and be accepted by everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Waring: Reflections in this mirror maybe distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You don't need to try so hard to fit in when you know that you were born to stand out... — Mee Copy Share Image
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Charles Schaefer Copy Share Image
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