“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
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
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude 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
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
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
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
“I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to… — Toller Cranston Copy Share Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano 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
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
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
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
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
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
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI 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
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
“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
“Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it… — Dan Pearce 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
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
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
