Conformity Quotes

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

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

What we need is equality without conformity.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

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.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

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

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Let's all be different same as me.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

nothing is more restful than conformity.