Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. — Aleister Crowley
Resist much, obey little. — Walt Whitman
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you… — Joseph Campbell
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
The multitude is always in the wrong. — Paulo Freire
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. — Frederick Salomon Perls
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring… — Paulo Freire
Resistance is the secret of joy! — Alice Walker
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or… — Henry David Thoreau
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive — Oscar Wilde
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old… — Chuck Palahniuk
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's… — Eric Hoffer
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as… — Jonathan Edwards
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all… — Alfred de Musset

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