Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 381 authors

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become… — Kenneth Tynan
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. — Jane Rule
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences… — Aristotle
What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral… — Aristotle
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now. — Graham Freudenberg
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. — Tom Peters
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,… — Peter Canisius
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the… — Deepak Chopra
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government. — Alexander Hamilton
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing… — Audre Lorde
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid… — Verner Panton
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman

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