Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you don't have a mind of your own among the crowd, then the crowd owns your mind. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so… — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“3. Perfectionism may manifest itself in moralism. External conformity to law is of prior importance. Every human act is regulated by law.… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou 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
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
