Conformity Quotes - Page 6

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

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

Let's all be different same as me.

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

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.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

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

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

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

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

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.

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

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

Is there an existence that is only mine?

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

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