--- title: "3 Conformity Quotes By Walt Whitman" description: "3 Conformity quotes by Walt Whitman. Plus more from Walt Whitman and more Conformity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png" --- > [Resist much, obey little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/resist-much-obey-little/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png) > [The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeals-of-reformers-and/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/walt-whitman-265_appeals_the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeal_1580149.png) > [We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-boldest-men-and-women-that/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/walt-whitman-265_community_we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-b_3177556.png) ## Other authors on Conformity - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [Aristotle 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeremy-limn-48923.jpg) Jeremy Limn 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/jeremy-limn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/friedrich-nietzsche/) ## More by Walt Whitman > [O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/o-lands-o-all-so-dear-to-me-what-you-are-i-become-part-of-that/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/comerado-this-is-no-book-who-touches-this-touches-a-man-is-it-night/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-have-sometimes-thought-that-the-laws-ought-not-to-punish-those/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/oh-while-i-live-to-be-the-ruler-of-life-not-a-slave-to-meet-life-as-a/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“it makes such difference where you read”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/it-makes-such-difference-where-you-read/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/wisdom-is-not-finally-tested-in-the-schools-wisdom-cannot-be-pass-d/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/strange-is-it-not-that-battles-martyrs-blood-even-assassination/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-think-i-could-always-live-with-animals-the-more-you-re-around/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-am-the-poet-of-the-body-and-i-am-the-poet-of-the-soul-the-pleasures/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/so-here-i-sit-in-the-early-candle-light-of-old-age-i-and-my-book/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/re-examine-all-you-have-been-told-dismiss-what-insults-your-soul/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/this-is-what-you-shall-do-love-the-earth-and-sun-and-animals-despise/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her-2/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/silence-what-can-new-york-noisy-roaring-rumbling-tumbling-bustling/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/walt-whitman/#itemlist", "name": "3 Conformity Quotes By Walt Whitman", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Resist much, obey little.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/resist-much-obey-little/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Resist much, obey little.” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeals-of-reformers-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/walt-whitman-265_appeals_the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeal_1580149.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/walt-whitman-265_appeals_the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeal_1580149.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/walt-whitman-265_appeals_the-eager-and-often-inconsiderate-appeal_1580149.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to…” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-boldest-men-and-women-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/walt-whitman-265_community_we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-b_3177556.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/walt-whitman-265_community_we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-b_3177556.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/walt-whitman-265_community_we-arrange-our-lives-even-the-best-and-b_3177556.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most…” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/walt-whitman/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/walt-whitman/", "name": "Conformity Quotes by Walt Whitman", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/walt-whitman/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/walt-whitman-265_beautiful_resist-much-obey-little-1304856_1304856.png" }, "description": "3 Conformity quotes by Walt Whitman. 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