Conformity Quotes - Page 10

• Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Law, Makers

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• Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence continues to invest in and enhance its Conformal solutions -- the industry's top verification flow and the only complete solution for integrated equivalency checking and functional verification.

  Michael Chang

  Cadence, Flow, Encounters

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• The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Hate, Struggle, Advantage

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• These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

  Herbert Read

  Feelings, Favors, Social

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Book, Men

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Our purposes". Pravda #1, Newspaper, January 22, 1912.

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• Let's all be different same as me.

  John Brunner

  Different

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

  Franz Boas

  Ethical Standards, Good Man, Way

  Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Father, Teaching, Heart

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• To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.

  Josiah Warren

  Appreciation, Men, Errors

  Josiah Warren (1849). “Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.5

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• Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

  Neal Ascherson

  People, Kind, Dummy

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• It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, America, Toadstools

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

  John Ortberg

  Moving, Belief, Christ

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.158, Harper Collins

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• The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

  Anais Nin

  Society, Favors, Patterns

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• The greater number of men are merely corporals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Numbers, Greater

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.239

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• We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Differences, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Two, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Horse, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.252, North Point Press

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• There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

  Michael Kinsley

  Culture, Cyberspace

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• What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

  Doug Stanhope

  Teacher, School, Use

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• Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.

  Glenn Ford

  Fashion, Strong, Fighting

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

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Warfare, Awareness

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

  Rob Roberge

  Memories, Influence, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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