Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others… — Doris Grumbach
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when… — Claire Danes
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the… — Sylvia Plath
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your… — Paula Sharp
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Unknown Author
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your… — Frederick Salomon Perls
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse:… — Paula Sharp
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Unknown Author
Is there an existence that is only mine? — Russell Hoban
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really shape them...but a… — Nadine Gordimer
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Unknown Author
In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this… — Jeanette Winterson
I am moving deeper into my own brain. — Peter Porter
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,… — Crescent Dragonwagon
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do… — Henry David Thoreau
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me… — Wendy O. Williams
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of… — Zack de la Rocha
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their… — St. Vincent
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall… — Pope Pius XI

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