Conformity Quotes
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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.
— Talcott Parsons
Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
She claimed that conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic.
— Lily King
Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
— Joyce Rachelle
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
— Charles Baudelaire
185. It Is Getting So Dark I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like. — Sei Shonagon
Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism.
— Debasish Mridha
Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
— Alexandra Robbins
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
— Frances G. Wickes
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
— Richard Lovelace
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The virtue in most request is conformity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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.
— George Santayana
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather
— Henrik Ibsen
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
— Louis Kronenberger
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
— Maximus The Confessor
Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
— Stefan Molyneux
From one dog all the dogs bark.
— Marty Rubin
Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.
— Robin Wasserman
What I'm starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They're accepting you for who they think you are.
— Kaiylah Muhammad
It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant because you're always going against the conformity of the group. — Philip G. Zimbardo
He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.
— Fred Hoyle
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
— John Dryden
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
Conformity is the only real fashion crime
— Simon Doonan
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
— Robert M. Lindner
I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.
— Debasish Mridha
Let's all be different same as me.
— John Brunner
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity
— Austin Osman Spare
If you conform, you can never reform.
— Debasish Mridha
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
— Jacob Bronowski
Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.
— Debasish Mridha
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
— Criss Jami
If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
— Al MacInnis
The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
— Debasish Mridha
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Mindless conformity is what turns us from humans into sheep.
— Johnny B. Truant
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
— Simone Weil
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
— Charles H. Brower
The greatest obstacle in understanding the universe is the conformity and fear of truth.
— Debasish Mridha
If you want to conform, then how can you change?
— Debasish Mridha
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
— Shane Koyczan
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.
— Lawrence Calcagno
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism
— Yahya Mohamed
I don't make the rules, I just make it up.
— L. Davyd Pollack
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
— H.M. Forester
Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.
— Debasish Mridha
Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging
— Tina J. Richardson
Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
— Billy Graham
Sheep wish no taste but woolly sweet conformity.
— Kevin Focke
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
— Joseph Stalin
One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
— George H. Smith
That is the true challengeto work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate. — Whitney Otto
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.
— Robert James Waller
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
— Nick Offerman
But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.
— Jerry Bridges
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
— Criss Jami
Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.
— Mac MacKenzie
We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Is there an existence that is only mine?
— Russell Hoban
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
— John Ralston Saul
