Conformity Quotes (77 Quotes)

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.

Let him walk here ,on earth , bringing his dress, speech, and thoughts to a conformity with his age, his occupation, his wealth, his sacred learning, and his race.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The State of Israel has to be able to exist peacefully in conformity with the norms of international law. Equally, the Palestinian people has to be able to develop serenely its own democratic institutions for a free and prosperous future.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear that same gray flannel suit That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard . . .

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

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

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

The stand India has taken according to us is not in conformity with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy. It is in our national interest to maintain good relations with Iran.

ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige dissidence carries personal costs.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

Plus, the show is very interesting to me politically at the moment, ... I think it speaks to our time in the way it looks at conformity and individualism and the whole question of speaking out. It seems to me these days that everybody is just joining the biggest line and not questioning things. And there's a lot of finger-pointing, with the red states against the blue ones, and those in the blue states labeled crazy while those in the red ones try to shut them up.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

We have always emphasized in the past that it is important for Afghanistan and its people that the government should act in conformity with international law,

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.

Just as there were excesses at the beginning -- the early feminists tried to rule out a lot of the sexuality and frivolity and, you know, they demonized Barbie and Cosmo girl in high heels and shopping and a lot of the fun stuff women like -- at the end, you know, they are equally sort of into conformity, but completely the opposite way,

Our expenses are all for conformity.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

As for the strategic partnership, our cooperation has a long-term character in all fields of our joint activities, ... As for the nuclear sphere, Russia is building its relations with India in this field in conformity with its international obligations.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

If this act had been passed two years ago there would not have been much debate about conformity. But this year, more than 40 states are facing budget shortfalls.

The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their 'I cannot do otherwise' and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this 'I cannot do otherwise'. They are the geniuses. Their 'I cannot do otherwise' is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.

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

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

Most interestingly of all, she attempts to show that the novel as a form has a certain political coloring, because it has to have a certain organization. ... that's a statement that says, 'conformity is not the highest good.'

In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing is a subversive force.

As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.

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

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

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.