Conformity Quotes
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This was a tough action for us to take, especially because it impacts many people who have served National well. However, given the continuing weakness in the marketplace, it is necessary to conform our resources to the market in order to maximize National's opportunity for long-term success. (Quote by - Brian Halla)
Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. (Quote by - Proverb)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. (Quote by - J.K. Galbraith)
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. (Quote by - Glen Beaman)
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954)
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. (Quote by - John Cage)
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. (Quote by - Voltaire)
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955)
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. (Quote by - John Fischer)
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
I may not be different, but I'm definitely not the same. (Quote by - William J. Dybus)
This is a very difficult case because it is very isolated, and that's why we have called for expressions of interest from both conforming and non-conforming interests. (Quote by - Peter Beattie)
Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies, 1907)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark. (Quote by - Bruce Hoffman)
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. (Quote by - Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciÓn, 18 February 1911)
And I could see the relief on my own 16-year-old daughter's face. She's a softball player, and she will not have to conform to the stereotypical view of what a female should be, of the unattainable body type that has been promoted for decades. (Quote by - Richard Lapchick)
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson Sr.)
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. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. (Quote by - Doug Floyd)
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. (Quote by - Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.)
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. (Quote by - Eli Khamarov, America Explained!)
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. (Quote by - Jane Rule)
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month. (Quote by - Bob DuPuy)
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. (Quote by - Kenneth L. Pike)
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. (Quote by - Henry Bessemer)
Once the government told people it was their duty to go out and attack neighbors, it happened very quickly. It kind of snowballed. People committed violence and wanted others to do the same thing, and a kind of group conformity swept through. (Quote by - Scott Straus)
Only through negotiations can a solution be found that conforms to the interests of all the parties. (Quote by - Wu Hailong)
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. (Quote by - Emile Henry Gauvreau)
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. (Quote by - Bill Vaughn)
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. (Quote by - George S. Patton)
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." (Quote by - Alan Sherman)
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799)
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. (Quote by - Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794)
No. (Quote by - President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America)
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If the international community tries to create the illusion that Serbia is conforming with demands .. we won't be able to tolerate it for long. (Quote by - Bardhyl Mahmuti)
Our expenses are all for conformity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I really expect it (turnout) to conform with recent history. (Quote by - Brad King)
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (Quote by - John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding)
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. (Quote by - Colin Wilson)
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. (Quote by - Budd Schulberg)
I give society and conformity the middle finger. (Quote by - Johnny Li)
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. (Quote by - William Blackstone)
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. (Quote by - Steven Brust)
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. (Quote by - Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection)
It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it. (Quote by - Jacob Levin)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Quote by - Buddha)
Roads are just a suggestion, like pants. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montagu)
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. (Quote by - John Allston)
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827)
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! (Quote by - W.J. Reichmann)
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy)
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. (Quote by - Dr. Robert Anthony)
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. (Quote by - From the movie Ed TV)
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932)
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. (Quote by - Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You)
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841)
I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice. (Quote by - Calvin Ayre)
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. (Quote by - William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822)
If you believe everything you read, you better not read. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. (Quote by - William Blackstone)
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off." (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. (Quote by - H.G. Wells, Crux Ansata)
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827)
He's not afraid to not conform . . . and that can upset people, so it's pretty correct [that there's two clear schools of thought on Connolly]. He would have his enemies, but he'd have a lot of supporters as well. (Quote by - David Wilson)
We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me. (Quote by - Jonathan Lockwood Huie)
Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com)
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." (Quote by - Grace Hopper)
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. (Quote by - La Bruyère, Characters, 1688)
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. (Quote by - Paul Vixie)
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The virtue in most request is conformity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Not all those who wander are lost. (Quote by - J.R.R. Tolkien)
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based. (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. (Quote by - Fritz Perls)
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Quote by - Juan Ramon Jimenez)
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. (Quote by - Muslih-uddin Sadi)
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. (Quote by - Robert Peel)
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)
To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. (Quote by - Ani Difranco)
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Typically the [federal government] makes a tax change and the states conform. It's a routine event. The fact that states haven't conformed yet doesn't mean they are not going to. (Quote by - Alysoun McLaughlin)
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
The governance principle of 'improving governance and benefiting the people' adopted by Donald Tsang and the SAR government conforms to the fundamental interests and common aspirations of the Hong Kong people. (Quote by - Wu Bangguo)
Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. (Quote by - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. (Quote by - Bill Griffith)
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Only dead fish swim with the stream. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
No bowler is ever 'cleared' as they could simply revert to bad habits. All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials .. have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket. (Quote by - David Richardson)
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
We are worried, absolutely. We'll do the utmost to conform to the regulations, but we're concerned about potential future costs. (Quote by - Willy Tomboy)
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. (Quote by - Lydia Maria Child)
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. (Quote by - Robert Anthony)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (Quote by - G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903)
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. (Quote by - Carl Rogers)
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. (Quote by - Rollo May)
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds. (Quote by - Bob Marley)
Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book)
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. (Quote by - Bruce Tulgan)
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. (Quote by - David Bohm)
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. (Quote by - Aesop)
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. (Quote by - Raymond E. Feist)
