Conformity Quote by Karen Swallow Prior

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

— Peter Ustinov

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

— Edward R. Murrow

There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

— Michael Landon

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

— Rumi

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

— Carl Rogers

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...

— Hans Hartung

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between…

— Lee Krasner

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance…

— Peter Høeg

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

— Anais Nin

... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living…

— Elisabeth Moss

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

— Julian Assange

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

— Henry Steele Commager

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman