Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

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

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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

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

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

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

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

There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

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.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

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

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

They taught me different was wrong.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous.

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

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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

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.

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.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

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

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

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

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

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.