Conformity Quotations

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless 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.

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

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

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.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

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

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

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

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

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.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

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

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

Plus, the show is very interesting to me politically at the moment, ... I think it speaks to our time in the way it looks at conformity and individualism and the whole question of speaking out. It seems to me these days that everybody is just joining the biggest line and not questioning things. And there's a lot of finger-pointing, with the red states against the blue ones, and those in the blue states labeled crazy while those in the red ones try to shut them up.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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 have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

There is every reason to believe that the election has been held in conformity with universally-recognized standards, and its legitimacy is beyond any doubt.

It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

All art is based on non-conformity.

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

We are confident that our revised proposal is fully in conformity with the ruling of the WTO arbitrators, ... It was always our intention that the level of protection would not change under our new import regime.

We are convinced that this deal is in our national interest. And the greatest advantage is that it takes a country that is outside the international non-proliferation regime and begins to bring it ... into conformity with the practices of that regime,

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

They taught me different was wrong.

Great 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.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

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.

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

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

The stand India has taken according to us is not in conformity with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy. It is in our national interest to maintain good relations with Iran.

The WTO cases have to do with conformity to the very loose procedural obligations incorporated in the WTO itself.

Once the government told people it was their duty to go out and attack neighbors, it happened very quickly. It kind of snowballed. People committed violence and wanted others to do the same thing, and a kind of group conformity swept through.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary

immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access in conformity with Security Council resolutions.

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

Servants should not only show a servile disposition, but it is quite as imperative that they should show a trained conformity to the canons of conspicuous subservience.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

There's the obvious musical programming - the slavish conformity of programmers and the overwhelming triumph of play lists and 'emphasis cuts' seen all around the country. It should be obvious to anyone listening to the radio that, like fast food, there is a lack of distinction everywhere you look.

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

ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.

The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, ... For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about -- namely freedom.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Let's all be different same as me.

That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

What we need is equality without conformity.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

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

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

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

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

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

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

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.

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

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

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.

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

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.