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
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
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
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
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige… — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere… — George Orwell 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
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus 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
“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
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
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
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism” — Yahya Mohamed Copy Share Image
We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
“He was going to suck my blood!” “Which is what we do to anyone when we say we’ll be hurt if they… — Richard Bach 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
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
