The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity.… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
“المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I… — Shirley Brice Heath Copy Share Image
Your unique way of doing things is what makes you so special. Don't always feel the need to do things the way… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI 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
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It’s time to introduce a new fallacy that we have coined the Kool-Aid Fallacy. It goes like this: “You disagree with me… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
