Conformity Quotes

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

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.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

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.

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.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

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.

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.

Becoming is superior to being.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

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.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

I am myself. That is not enough.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

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.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

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.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.