Conformity Quotes - Page 21

• Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Patriotism, Democracy

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• The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

  John le Carre

  Christian, Real, Lying

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• Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

  Paul Vixie

  Rebel, Path, Conformist

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• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Different, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.56, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Law

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• It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?

  Claire Danes

  Mean, Thinking, Personality

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• She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

  Mary Webb

  Years, People, Heaven

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• I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.

  Philip Treacy

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Imagination

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Cutting, Simple, Law

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Holiness, Holiness Of God

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Holiness, Obedience

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

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• It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us. We often fear that people won't take us seriously, or that they won't think us qualified enough. For the sake of being accepted, we can forget our source and put on one of the rigid masks of professionalism or conformity that society is continually offering us. The childlike part of us is the part that, like the Fool, simply does and says, without needing to qualify himself or strut his credentials.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Children, Struggle, Thinking

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.50, Penguin

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• Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

  Paul Yingling

  Combat, Behave, Expected

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• Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

  Joan D. Chittister

  People, Routine, Asking

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• Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

  Lewis Mumford

  Play, Long, People

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• We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fighting, Unique, Style

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• Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Men, Originality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.439, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Opposites, Ideas

  F.scott fitzgerald (1969). “the last tycon”

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• A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Games, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Pay

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

  Richard J. Foster

  Sick, Sick Society

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock sex, using drugs, defying everything decent in society. But that's not freedom, is it? That's not even anarchy. What it is, is simple conformity. That's all it really is.

  Michael Savage

  Crazy, Simple, Thinking

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