Conformity Quotes

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

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

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

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

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

I am myself. That is not enough.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Never say No when the world says Aye.

It's weird not to be weird.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

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

Our real journey in life is interior.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.