Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

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 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 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 constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

They taught me different was wrong.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...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.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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

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

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

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 all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

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.

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

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

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

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