1.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
Friedrich Nietzsche
'If you desire a tranquil existence, remain within the masses and blend in with them.'
2.
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Averroes
Understanding is the union of the subject and the intellect.
3.
Your genuine action will explain itself, and
will explain your other genuine actions.
Your conformity explains nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your authentic deeds will speak for themselves, and demonstrate your other genuine acts. Imitation conveys nothing.
4.
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
Shane Koyczan
7.
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos Bolyai
8.
I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
Marva Collins
9.
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
Eric Hoffer
10.
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
Vivienne Westwood
11.
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
Stockard Channing
12.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
13.
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
Maximus the Confessor
16.
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
Hunter S. Thompson
17.
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
Toller Cranston
18.
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Rickson Gracie
20.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Oscar Wilde
21.
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Paul Vixie
22.
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.
Gottfried Leibniz
23.
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
Zelda Fitzgerald
26.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
Theodor Adorno
27.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
Frank Gehry
28.
None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.
Matthew Henry
30.
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Frederick Salomon Perls
31.
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
Lee Krasner
33.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
Philip Zimbardo
34.
... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].
Shang Yang
35.
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
Alonzo King
36.
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
Carl Rogers
37.
Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
David McCallum
38.
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
Rumi
40.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
Bruce Lee
41.
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
42.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Antonio Porchia
43.
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
44.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
Michael Crichton
45.
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.
Tim Burton
46.
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
Edwin Louis Cole
47.
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
Charles Hodge
48.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Charles Spurgeon
49.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
50.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Bill Griffith