Top 15 Conformities Quotes
#1. Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday ... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side ... in the great ideological wars of our time.
Isaiah Berlin
#2. The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.
Louise J. Kaplan
#5. America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
Ruben Hinojosa
#6. The teacher must ever walk warily between the necessity of inducing those conformities which in every generation reaffirm our rebellious humanity, and of allowing for the free play of the creative spirit.
Loren Eiseley
#7. Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions.
The New Yorker
#8. The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.
Paul Giamatti
#9. Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.
Justine Picardie
#10. To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
Christopher Hitchens
#11. I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.
George Vecsey
#12. Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.
Maggie O'Farrell
#13. We live in a society in which unnecessary conformities are the very essence of necessity
Christine Iliadis
#14. Hen Maistre adopts Bossuet's bold idea that "the heretic is he who has personal
ideas" - in other words, ideas that have no reference to either a social or a religious tradition - he provides
the formula for the most ancient and the most modern of conformities.
Albert Camus
#15. The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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