Conformity Quotes - Page 2

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

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.

... 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

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 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.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

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

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.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Our real journey in life is interior.

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

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.

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

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

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