Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.” — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
Just because you don't fit society's standards of beautiful, doesn't mean YOU aren't beautiful. — Rachel Marie Meyer Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true'… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
“One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“It’s time to introduce a new fallacy that we have coined the Kool-Aid Fallacy. It goes like this: “You disagree with me… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of… — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity! — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group… — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy… — John Milton Copy Share Image
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage Copy Share Image
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
