The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae Brown American Writer More Rita Mae Brown Quotes 1
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Robert Anthony Educator More Robert Anthony Quotes 1
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. Charles Bent American Politician More Charles Bent Quotes 0
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. Janos Bolyai Hungarian Mathematician More Janos Bolyai Quotes 0
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. Andrew Coyle Bradley American Judge More Andrew Coyle Bradley Quotes 0
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski English Scientist More Jacob Bronowski Quotes 0
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Freda Adler American Educator More Freda Adler Quotes 0
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 Clergyman More Godfried Danneels Quotes 0
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 Clergyman More Godfried Danneels Quotes 0
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. Suzanne Farrell American Dancer More Suzanne Farrell Quotes 0
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuban Novelist More Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Howard Mumford Jones Quotes 0
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy American President More John F. Kennedy Quotes 0
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. Matt LeBlanc American Actor More Matt LeBlanc Quotes 0
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 French Philosopher More Nicolas Malebranche Quotes 0
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. Karel Reisz Czechoslovakian Director More Karel Reisz Quotes 0
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. Amy Tan American Novelist More Amy Tan Quotes 0
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov English Actor More Peter Ustinov Quotes 0
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Irving Wallace American Author More Irving Wallace Quotes 0
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. Charles Dudley Warner American Journalist More Charles Dudley Warner Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Thomas J. Watson Quotes 0
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
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 American Politician More Chauncey Depew Quotes 0
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Carl Van Doren American Author More Carl Van Doren Quotes 0
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 American Politician More Barry Goldwater Quotes 0