“A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?” — Red Tash Copy Share Image
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“You are unique, Niya. Don’t let anyone take that from you! Your existence is a gift to this world! Do not settle… — Hinesh Vithal Copy Share Image
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life… — Charles Bent Copy Share Image
Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in — Lauren Willcox Copy Share Image
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers… — Betsy Prioleau Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
People most of live in a sort of conformity, a that's the way it is. You have to break, many times you… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Your Conformity Zone As a general rule, if everyone else is doing it, you don’t want to do it. Starting off a… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that children and teens want to blend in and follow the crowd. And from whom do they learn this lesson?… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot… — David Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The happiest people on earth are not those who live on their terms, but those who change their terms for the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
