Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

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

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

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

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

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

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

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.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

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.

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

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

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

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

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

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

nothing is more restful than conformity.

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.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

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

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

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.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

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

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

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

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.