Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. — Gustave Flaubert
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. — Julius Charles Hare
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. — Jim Hightower
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to… — David Icke
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. — John F. Kennedy
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. — Jack Kerouac
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest… — H P Lovecraft
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. — Norman Mailer
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. — W. Somerset Maugham
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. — Rollo May
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. — Bryant H. McGill
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own… — Thomas Merton
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't -… — Bette Midler

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