I'll never fall in line, become another victim of your conformity and back down. — Sum 41 Copy Share Image
Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich 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
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
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
People most of live in a sort of conformity, a that's the way it is. You have to break, many times you… — Mariana Fulger 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
“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“John F. Kennedy. ‘Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.’ ” — John Dixon Copy Share Image
