Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 380 authors

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. — Robert M. Pirsig
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God — J C Ryle
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience. — William O. Douglas
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ. — R C Sproul
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching… — Ken Robinson
Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived… — Steven Erikson
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's… — Paul Krassner
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... — Che Guevara
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editorsâ€™ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement… — Julian Schwinger
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up… — Robert M. Price
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind… — Edward Bernays
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. — Janos Bolyai
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the… — Edward Everett
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses… — Deepak Chopra
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno
I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of… — Philip Treacy

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