Top 100 Quotes About Conformity
#1. It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.
Django Wylie
#2. There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
Audre Lorde
#3. Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
Godfried Danneels
#4. When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the goal of wanting to stand apart. We are a sea of ordinary people; it is always the quirk, the flaw or the ingenuity that stands out.
Donna Lynn Hope
#7. Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.
Peter Canisius
#8. Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
Al MacInnis
#9. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
#10. I propose ... The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
Alexander Hamilton
#11. The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.
Talcott Parsons
#12. These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
Herbert Read
#13. Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
Jane Rule
#14. Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
Wendy McElroy
#15. The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard Lovelace
#17. The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#18. There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
Godfried Danneels
#19. To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.
John F. Nash
#20. Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#21. Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless conformity.
Sahar El-Nadi
#22. There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
Tom Robbins
#23. I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You can march to your own beat. It's so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.
Adam Lambert
#24. Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
Alonzo King
#25. Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.
T.D. Jakes
#26. The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and ... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.
William O. Douglas
#27. The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.
Jeffrey Fry
#28. Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.
David Brooks
#30. What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?
Ben Shahn
#31. The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.
John Owen
#32. 'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.
Theo James
#33. Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions
Tom Rath
#34. Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#36. For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue.
Aristotle.
#37. What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
John Oliver Killens
#39. In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
Maximus The Confessor
#40. What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
Dallas Willard
#41. Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.
Mac MacKenzie
#42. My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
King Tuff
#44. Your genuine action will explain itself, and
will explain your other genuine actions.
Your conformity explains nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. 2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
William Strunk Jr.
#46. Individual minds are subject to something else more confining - the conformity cloud
Dew Platt
#47. The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity.
Earl Nightingale
#48. Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.
Alexandra Robbins
#49. Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
Nicolas Malebranche
#50. Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones
#52. You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.
D. Allen Miller
#55. Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Judith M Bardwick
#56. The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Bryant H. McGill
#57. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
John Perry Barlow
#58. Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back - throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion - and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?
William Thrasher
#59. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
Jerry Bridges
#61. We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Vance Havner
#62. Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
Nick Offerman
#63. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
Jacob Bronowski
#64. Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real ... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.
Jerry Bridges
#66. Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
Eric Hoffer
#67. 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.
Aristotle.
#68. The happy man ... will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
Aristotle.
#69. Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne Dyer
#71. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Anna Quindlen
#72. Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
Frank Herbert
#73. The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#74. 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.
Virginia Graham
#75. Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler
#76. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.
David Hume
#77. 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.
Carl Rogers
#78. Of course there is a way to stop the rampant spread of beauty. It has to do with regimentation, conformity, assemblyline aesthetics, and the triumph of the functional over the haphazard.
Anne Rice
#79. Higher education means conformity to the terms of salvation. It embraces the experience of daily looking unto Jesus, and of working together with Christ for the saving of the perishing.
Ellen G. White
#80. I myself have had a good deal to say on those subjects in previous books,1 basing my statements on holy Scripture; what I said there was either what I found stated in Scripture or what I could infer from scriptural statements, always keeping in conformity with the authority of the Bible. A
Augustine Of Hippo
#81. 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.
Oscar Wilde
#82. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
#83. I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us.
John Milton
#84. If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#85. Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed ... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.
D.H. Lawrence
#86. What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority ...
Doug Stanhope
#87. 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.
George Santayana
#88. The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Elihu Root
#89. I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
#90. 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.
T. S. Eliot
#91. conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.
Lily King
#92. Conformity - the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
Mark Twain
#93. Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
H.L. Mencken
#94. 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.
Neal Ascherson
#95. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
Henry Scougal
#96. I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt LeBlanc
#97. Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.
Oliver DeMille
#98. Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.
Paul Mattick
#99. Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Middle-status conformity leads us to choose the safety of the tried-and-true over the danger of the original. Sociologists
Adam M. Grant
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