Top 30 Quotes About Individuality Vs. Conformity

#1. Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#2. It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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#3. One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.

Billy Graham

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#4. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

Ken Robinson

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#5. Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

Todd William

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#6. There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

J. Paul Getty

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#7. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#8. A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

Auliq Ice

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#9. [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Taylor

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#10. I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity
to one's self.

Paul Krassner

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#11. I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?

Melissa De La Cruz

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#12. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

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#13. If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

Kim Fowley

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#14. We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

Chris Matakas

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#15. As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Orhan Pamuk

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#16. Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

Henry Handel Richardson

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#17. The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

C. G. Jung

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

Deepak Chopra

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#19. When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#20. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

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#21. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

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#22. The Master said of Gong Yechang, "He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime." The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.
(Analects 5.1)

Confucius

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#23. It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations
past and present
are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer

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#24. 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

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#25. Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

Bryant McGill

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#26. Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

Varg Vikernes

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#27. You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Jonathan Davis

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#28. Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Criss Jami

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#29. Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

Gayle Forman

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#30. 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.

Walt Whitman

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