Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

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

nothing is more restful than conformity.

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

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

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

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.

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

Our expenses are all for conformity.

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

Resistance is the secret of joy!

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

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Our real journey in life is interior.

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

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.

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.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

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

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.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

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

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

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

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 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 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 mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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.

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

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

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.

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.