Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality.… — Richard J. Foster
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer… — Aristotle
However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue… — Meg Cabot
What is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus
What we need is equality without conformity. — Kim Stanley Robinson
A prison becomes a home when you have the key. — George Sterling
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted… — Tom Robbins
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
The longest journey is the journey inward. — Dag Hammarskjold
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other peopleâ€™s. — Anais Nin
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they… — Neal Stephenson
It's weird not to be weird. — John Lennon
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will… — Antonin Sertillanges
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
The things that make me different are the things that make me. — A A Milne
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer
Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge,… — Steve Toltz

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