Conformity Quotes - Page 15

• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.

  L. Todd Rose

  Senior, Girlfriend, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

  Ben Shahn

  Fall, Artist, Lines

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  Law, Moral, Sin

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.312, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Law, Doe

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.183, Penguin

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• Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, Dream, Kindness

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.88, Ulysses Press

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• He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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• Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Curiosity, Skepticism, Disbelief

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Blessing, People, Disregard

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

  Paul Simon

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "The Boxer," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge over Troubled Water.

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, Real

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

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• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

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• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  Paul Valery

  Psychics, Empowerment, Ironic

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Causing Change, Esoteric

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.93, Lulu Press, Inc

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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

  Years, People, Trouble

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• By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.

  Steve Erickson

  Hands, Order, Becoming

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

  Wednesday Martin

  Trying, Identity, Moments

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Government, People

  "Michele Bachmann Looks Ahead After Iowa Straw Poll Victory". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Unions, States, Legislation

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Dark

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 11 (1851)

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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