How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of… — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Just because you don't fit society's standards of beautiful, doesn't mean YOU aren't beautiful. — Rachel Marie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.” — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“The ways of this world hold nothing for us anymore. Our conformity is over. Transformation must begin.” — Chris Tiegreen Copy Share Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not the patron saint of etiquette and me attitude stinks of arse, but at least I don’t dictate to… — Rupert Dreyfus Copy Share Image
It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Liar! I know that you humans build your life in lies. It starts with your mortal lords and their fabricated gods. They… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth 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
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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