Conformity Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

It's weird not to be weird.

Never say No when the world says Aye.

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

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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.

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

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

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

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

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

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

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.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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