“My idiosyncrasies set me apart from the conformity of the human race.” — Epiphana Lewis Copy Share Image
“They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“John F. Kennedy. ‘Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.’ ” — John Dixon Copy Share Image
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The problem with the society nowadays is that everyone is trying to fit in when most of the people were born to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs. — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“Schools breed conformity. They socialise children in a particular way, make them into cooperative team players with limited capacity to think for… — Sarah Singleton Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
