Conformity Quotes - Page 7

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

I have an aversion to conformity.

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

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.