How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
People are born to be different. Yet most people spend their whole life trying to fit in and be the same as… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Dehypnotize the world, my friend, and you shall witness the dawn of real religion – the religion, not of books, but of people.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when… — Raoul Dufy Copy Share Image
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime… — Jenna Miscavige Hill Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Those societies in which seriousness, tradition, conformity and adherence to long-established - often god-prescribed - ways of doing things are the strictly… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
