Conformity Quotes - Page 16

• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Aversion, Conspiracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Culture, Consciousness, Ideology

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.104, Routledge

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• In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.

  Max Horkheimer

  Taken, Mean, Reality

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

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• Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Squares, Choices

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Curiosity, Important

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.24, New Society Publishers

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• No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Struggle, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Socialism: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

  Solomon Asch

  Education, Strong, Black And White

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Soul, Supremacy

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Tradition, Imitation

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• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Public Opinion

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Expression

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• With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

  Betsy Prioleau

  Strong Women, Independent, Driven

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• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Heart, Cake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

  Robert Adam

  Men, Excess, Coquetry

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• You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

  Budd Schulberg

  Tough, Conform, Expected

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• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

  Jerry Bridges

  Religious, Real, Practice

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

  Matthew Henry

  Election, Christ, Chosen

  "Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume VI-I - Acts - Romans".

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• All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.

  Ellen G. White

  Appreciation, Heart, Character

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.2240, Simon and Schuster

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• If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

  Celia Green

  Race, Gains, Rebellion

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

  Virginia Graham

  Hair, Looks, Next

  Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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• For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

  Mary Webb

  Soul, Insane, Doe

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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• Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

  Sue Grafton

  Independence, Individuality, Cooperation

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.30, Macmillan

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• I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Wind, People, Tides

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