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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

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

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

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

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

I am myself. That is not enough.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

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

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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.

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.

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.

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.