Conformity Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conformity Culture Jailer Tradition
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it. — George Steinbrenner Copy Share Image
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of… — George Blake Copy Share Image
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
