Conformity Quotations | Page 2

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

People would rather be wrong than be different.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Becoming is superior to being.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

I am myself. That is not enough.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

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

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

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

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

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

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

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

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

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

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

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

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

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Never say No when the world says Aye.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

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

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

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

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

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

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

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

It's weird not to be weird.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

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

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

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

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

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.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

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