Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else… — Christopher Morley
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact,… — Dennis Prager
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of… — Robert Redford
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to… — Adlai E. Stevenson
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. — Amy Tan
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music… — Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. — Peter Ustinov
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. — Alice Walker
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. — Charles Dudley Warner
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of… — Thomas J. Watson
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. — Bill Watterson
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked… — Carter G. Woodson

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