Conforms Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and… — Ezra Pound
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,… — Alexander Bickel
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to… — Pope Pius XI
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by… — Henry David Thoreau
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general… — Cesare Beccaria
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms… — Anthony Gregory
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and… — Paul Davies
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? — Xunzi
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God — William Blackstone
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. — Henry David Thoreau
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people… — Andy Rooney
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms… — Walter J. Phillips
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — Walter Darby Bannard
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. — Marcus Aurelius

Who Wrote These Conforms Quotes

31 authors contributed a total of 36 Conforms Quotes, led by these top contributors: