Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teenage…the time in life when you show your individuality by looking like everyone else.! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders.… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing 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
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 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
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
In a world where conformity breeds acceptance, stand tall and go against the grain, because when every ones going the wrong way,… — Kemar Hinds Copy Share Image
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.” — George will Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain 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
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
“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
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
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin 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
“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
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
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. — Anonymous 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
