Conformity Quotes

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different g...

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial confor...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an oc...

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of ...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. ...

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they ca...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are ...

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more...

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and...

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing ...

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read t...

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom a...

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my sta...

The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is...

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never...

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and...

It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as...

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissi...

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not dimini...

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to liv...

This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can...

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man go...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accom...

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. I...

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient dist...

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother you...

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all...

When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and ...

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in...

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...