49 Conformity Quotes for You to Enjoy

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit. Christopher McCandless

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May

Courage Cowardice Society Our Opposite Conformity

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower

Courage Cowardice Dead Fish Go Opposite Conformity Even Flow

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson

Speak Fear Path Mind Independence Danger Independent Follow Unsafe Ideas Stigma Label Than Controversy Conformity Your Less Expose Thinker

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater

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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. David Icke

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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae Brown

You Yourself Reward Everyone Likes Conformity

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft

Truth Religion Try Insist Young Consequences Backgrounds Would Followers True Merely Practical Were Quest Artificial Irrespective Conformity

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

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Carter G. Woodson

Education Good Needs People Others Enslaved Those Out Has-Been Weaker More Because Does However Been Oppressed Than Modern Modern Education So-Called Conformity Worked Much Who Defects

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. William S. Burroughs

Hate Those How Conformity Producing Dedicated Who

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov

Freedom Pressure Nothing Through America Conformity Choice Choose

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. Chauncey Depew

You Speak Fear Path Mind Important Dangers Independent Follow Cost Seem Unsafe Counted Ideas Stigma Issues Label Up Than Any Controversy Conformity Stand Your Stand Up Less Expose Thinker

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

Me Cruelty Big Group Pants Parade Scares Join Towards Because Off Often Want Anyone Conformity Prelude Who

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' Michael Crichton

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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. Saint Teresa of Avila

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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. Karen Armstrong

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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. Neil Strauss

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I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy. Robert Redford

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Power frees us from the chains of conformity. Adam Grant

Power Conformity Us Chains

Conformity is dangerous. Adam Grant

Dangerous Conformity

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. Amy Tan

Success You Rebellion Both Attack Conformity

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