Conformity Quotes
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.
Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.