Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of… — Michael Pollan
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box — Twyla Tharp
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. — Lisa Lutz
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. — Russell Brand
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't… — Charles Taylor
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent… — Ron Paul
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.… — Dan Barker
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God… — R C Sproul
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and… — Viktor E. Frankl
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a… — David Icke
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. — Rick Warren
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that… — Howard Zinn

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