Quotes and Sayings About Conformity
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In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
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.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
-- Alan Cumming -
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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.
-- Alice Sebold -
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
-- Alonzo King -
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
-- Amy Tan -
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
-- Augustus Hopkins Strong -
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
-- Averroes -
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.
-- Betsy Prioleau -
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
-- Bill Griffith -
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
-- Bruce Tulgan -
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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.
-- Celia Green -
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Charles H. Brower -
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
-- Charles Hodge -
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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.
-- David Brooks -
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.
-- David McCallum -
It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.
-- Dorothy Fuldheim -
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Never say No when the world says Aye.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
-- Frank Herbert