Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you decided to follow other peoples advice, take time to examine yourself how much you believe in yourself before giving up… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. — Al MacInnis Copy Share Image
Why try to change who you are to make someone love you when the right person will love you for who you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not let someone else change who you are because you want to be like them, you are perfect just the way… — Collin Mitchell Copy Share Image
People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or… — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform… — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
“FRUITS AND NUTS Keep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
“There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“If we would completely rejoice the heart of God, let us strive in all things to conform ourselves to His divine will.… — Alphonsus De Ligouri Copy Share Image
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken 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
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
The minute you start swimming with the stream is the minute when you get lost in the crowd. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Teach your kids to reject blind conformity. Because when they do, rarely will they discover their heart desires more money, possessions, fame,… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
