Conform Quotes - Page 2

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

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

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

Becoming is superior to being.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

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.

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

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

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'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I am myself. That is not enough.

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

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

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