We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“Always remember — the one unforgivable sin in any society is to be different. Be different and be damned. And yet —… — MissFit Writes 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
“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
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
“The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're… — Marge Piercy 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
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Don't change your originality for the sake of others because no one else can play your role better than you! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. — Janos Bolyai Copy Share Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.” — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to stand out. It's better to be remembered for standing out in a crowd than to be forgotten for… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to impress that special someone, but if you can't get them by being yourself, then they can't be that special. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
