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> [However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-cabot/however-because-they-have-no-actual-interests-of-their-own-or-if-they/)

[Meg Cabot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-cabot/)

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> [Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/wherever-a-man-separates-from-the-multitude-and-goes-his-own-way-in/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His task was to discover his own destiny -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/each-man-had-only-one-genuine-vocation-to-find-the-way-to-himself-his/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-maurice-de-zayas/this-new-declaration-which-emphasizes-the-necessity-of-global/)

[Alfred-Maurice de Zayas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-maurice-de-zayas/)

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> [Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blackstone/man-must-necessarily-be-subject-to-the-laws-of-his-creator-for-he-is/)

[William Blackstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blackstone/)

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> [Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/many-people-feel-they-are-powerless-to-do-anything-effective-with/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lindsay-duncan/it-s-an-important-point-to-make-that-people-can-t-just-be-invalidated/)

[Lindsay Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lindsay-duncan/)

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> [“One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-suarez/one-did-not-accidentally-graduate-from-top-tier-schools-one-strove-to/)

[Daniel Suarez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-suarez/)

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> [The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-giroux/the-prevailing-move-in-american-society-to-a-permanent-war-status/)

[Henry Giroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-giroux/)

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> [The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/the-characteristic-human-trait-is-not-awareness-but-conformity-and/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [“It is. It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-n-cook/it-is-it-s-a-psychological-phenomenon-common-in-governments-business/)

[James N. Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-n-cook/)

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> [I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audrey-tautou/i-think-when-you-re-an-adult-you-start-to-like-the-very-things-that/)

[Audrey Tautou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audrey-tautou/)

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> [“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-krakauer/i-d-like-to-repeat-the-advice-that-i-gave-you-before-in-that-i-think/)

[Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-krakauer/)

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> [In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/in-most-cases-to-be-reasonable-means-not-to-be-obstinate-which-in/)

[Max Horkheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-horkheimer/)

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> [Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-ford/once-physical-beauty-is-gone-there-must-be-something-more-to-take-its/)

[Glenn Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-ford/)

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> [“God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/god-never-uses-one-approach-to-the-get-his-job-done-in-the-world-each/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-true-we-are-such-poor-navigators-that-our-thoughts-for-the-most/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giorgos-seferis/you-spoke-about-things-they-couldn-t-see-and-so-they-laughed-yet-to/)

[Giorgos Seferis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giorgos-seferis/)

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> [If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-stand-up-and-be-counted-from-time-to-time-you-may-get-yourself/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michele-bachmann/government-has-really-been-growing-a-lot-of-largesse-but-the-people/)

[Michele Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michele-bachmann/)

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> [The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-example-of-russia-reminds-us-that-keeping-up-that-enormous-dead/)

[David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/)

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> [I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crescent-dragonwagon/i-was-an-onion-layers-and-layers-and-layers-under-a-thin-papery-skin/)

[Crescent Dragonwagon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crescent-dragonwagon/)

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> [Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-lindner/adjustment-that-synonym-for-conformity-that-comes-more-easily-to-the/)

[Robert M. Lindner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-lindner/)

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> [The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-schwinger/the-pressure-for-conformity-is-enormous-i-have-experienced-it-in/)

[Julian Schwinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-schwinger/)

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> [What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-originality-to-see-something-that-has-no-name-as-yet-and/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alisa-craig/i-m-making-a-statement-about-conformity-for-or-against-that-s-for-the/)

[Alisa Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alisa-craig/)

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> [Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alva-myrdal/though-it-is-fairly-easy-to-describe-what-constitutes-a-bad-home/)

[Alva Myrdal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alva-myrdal/)

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> [“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-wouk/conformity-is-evil-when-it-distorts-flattens-and-erases-fruitful-ways/)

[Herman Wouk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-wouk/)

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> [He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/he-is-the-best-sailor-who-can-steer-within-the-fewest-points-of-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/obviously-there-are-people-who-constrict-themselves-and-build-walls/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/but-when-i-call-for-a-hero-out-comes-my-lazy-old-self-so-i-never-know/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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> [“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/when-political-leaders-set-a-negative-example-professional/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

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> [In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-branden/in-any-culture-subculture-or-family-in-which-belief-is-valued-above/)

[Nathaniel Branden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-branden/)

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> [“I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-kendall/i-realized-that-we-all-have-the-ability-to-live-in-worlds-of-our-own/)

[Andrew Kendall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-kendall/)

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> [“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sera-break/we-are-not-here-to-match-and-homogenize-and-agree-on-every-point-one/)

[Sera Break](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sera-break/)

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> [The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-icke/the-human-race-is-a-herd-here-we-are-unique-eternal-aspects-of/)

[David Icke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-icke/)

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> [When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/when-people-are-free-to-do-as-they-please-they-usually-imitate-each-2/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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> [Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-thomas/long-gone-is-the-time-when-we-opposed-the-notion-that-we-all-looked/)

[Clarence Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarence-thomas/)

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> [“...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathanael-west/all-these-things-were-part-of-the-business-of-dreams-he-had-learned/)

[Nathanael West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathanael-west/)

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> [Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-jordan/americanization-means-the-process-of-becoming-an-american-it-means/)

[Barbara Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-jordan/)

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## Top authors on Conformity

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                        "text": "“One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.”",
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                        "text": "The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival of the fittest ethic, promoting conformity over dissent, the strong over the weak, and fear over responsibility, it also gives rise to what David Graeber has called a \"language of command\" in which violence becomes the most important element of power and mediating force in shaping social relationships.",
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                        "text": "The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.",
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                        "text": "“It is. It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking and disagreement. Anyone who challenges the consensus of the greater body, regardless of how valid that challenge might be, is considered disloyal. This produces deviant outcomes. People thinking they are always right, everyone else is wrong, and their logic is unassailable, no matter how divorced from reality it might be.”",
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                        "text": "I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.",
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                        "text": "“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”",
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                        "text": "In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.",
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                        "text": "Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.",
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                        "text": "“God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings, talents and gifts God meant for you to share.”",
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