Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a… — Friedrich Schiller
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely… — Moliere
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off. — Carl Sandburg
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk,… — George Santayana
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard
Never say No when the world says Aye. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. — Robert Breault
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong. — Kin Hubbard
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead… — Orson Scott Card
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive â€” a… — Ayn Rand
If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? — Edith Sitwell

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