Conformity Quotes
489 quotes by 381 authors
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of…
— Karen Armstrong
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
— Erykah Badu
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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or…
— Ray Bradbury
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
— Jacob Bronowski
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
— Rita Mae Brown
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek…
— Steven Brust
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
— William S. Burroughs
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
— Coco Chanel
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that…
— Barbara Jordan
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Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing…
— Simon Doonan
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an…
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the…
— Learned Hand
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What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same…
— John Oliver Killens
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition,…
— Louis Berkhof
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