Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
The moment you start changing to please people, you will be taking a step backward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nature of culture is evolution. The practice of culture is adaptation. — Kelvin Chau Copy Share Image
“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." — Simon Boswell Copy Share Image
And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy,… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still… — Nancy Mairs 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
“This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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