Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Die Wissenschaft ist ein Land, welches die Eigenschaft hat, um so mehr Menschen beherbergen zu können, je mehr Bewohner sich darin sammeln;… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
“I reached into my pocket and took the medal and tossed it toward the black opening. It went right in. It disappeared… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
“It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture. Each evening I… — Brant Hansen Copy Share Image
“The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em. Let those eradicate who can Man's inhumanity to man Through teaching boys to kiss… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype. When people I've never met say I should act more like myself,… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“ Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It seems like this day and age is heading to a larger emphasis on conformity. The goal of life was to be… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to… — John Mott Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
