Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

Our expenses are all for conformity.

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.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

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!

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

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

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.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

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

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

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 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 constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

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

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.

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

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.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

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

Resistance is the secret of joy!

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

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

They taught me different was wrong.

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

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

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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

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.