Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

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

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

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

I am myself. That is not enough.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Is there an existence that is only mine?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

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

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.

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

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

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

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

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

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.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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