The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized. — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ...… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“The thing about Mia's logic was that it was hard to argue with without sounding like the bad guy. Every objection had… — Patrick Riot Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling… — Moliere Copy Share Image
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more… — Graham Freudenberg Copy Share Image
The makeup of life; to smother yourself with superficial beliefs so you can be accepted by society. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“If you believe in an idea that others find radical, don’t let fear keep you from stepping outside of conformity.” — Chitra D. Nawbatt Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Biggest waste of time in life is adjusting yourself to be accepted by people who frankly...won't EVER like you. BE YOURSELF — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
