Conformity Quotes

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

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

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

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

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

They taught me different was wrong.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.