Conformity Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image “How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conformity Groups Non conformity Opinion Want
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress who represents one of the few true swing districts in the country, I have always tried to engage groups… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
“When you identify as part of a group, your opinions tend to be biased toward the group consensus.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the… — Lloyd Doggett Copy Share Image
Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no".… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.". — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the particular practices… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
