Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

All art is based on non-conformity. — Ben Shahn
Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too… — Godfried Danneels
Sophistication is upscale conformity. — James Richardson
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to… — Noam Chomsky
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. — H. L. Mencken
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the… — Anna Quindlen
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. — Aristotle
So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up… — Erwin McManus
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life… — Aron Ralston
Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God — Jerry Bridges
Holiness is not a series of doâ€™s and donâ€™ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God. — Jerry Bridges
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. — Matt LeBlanc
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do,… — Joan D. Chittister
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our… — Lewis Mumford
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. — Judith M Bardwick
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. — Karel Reisz

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