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All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Becoming is superior to being.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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.

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

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

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

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

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

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

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 moving deeper into my own brain.

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

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

I am myself. That is not enough.

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.