Conformity Quotes

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

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.

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness.

Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

If you conform, you can never reform.

Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.

From one dog all the dogs bark.

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

Lord, please protect me from Your people.

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

We are the anarchists your parents warned you about.

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

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.