“In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.” — Johan Coetzer Copy Share Image
“difference is trampled under foot and conformity is elevated to a virtue” — Marcus Bussey Copy Share Image
I don't always go with the crowd because we don't always have the same priorities. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Don't change the truth just to suite somebody's taste, it may lose itself. If they really want the truth, they will take… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“There seemed never to be a moment when he was not haunted by the fear of being thought lacking by his British… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“When conformity is required, as it is in Christianity, what are the results? To begin with, the sacrifice of truth inevitably follows.… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“What happened to all those leading men of the great bacchanalia? They either died of AIDS or accepted roles as supporting actors… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
