Conformity Quotes - Page 9

• Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

  Jenna Miscavige Hill

  Children, People, Robots

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• The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Reason

  Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly (2014). “Vivienne Westwood”, p.407, Pan Macmillan

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• Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Creativity, Reflection, Discovery

  Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Conviction, Be A Man

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Silence, World

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Father, Sacrifice

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• His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Determination, Prayer

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• Conformity is the only real fashion crime

  Simon Doonan

  Fashion, Real, Crime

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• ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Real, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Men And Women, Our Lives

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.402, Melville House

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• Science is one land, having the ability to accommodate even more people, as more residents gather in it; it is a treasure that is the greater the more it is shared. Because of that, each of us can do his work in his own way, and the common ground does not mean conformity.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Hard Work, Mean, Land

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• Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Mean, Light, Becoming One

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• Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

  Walter Bagehot

  Country, Intellectual, Doubt

  Walter Bagehot (1879). “Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T”

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• Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.

  Isaiah Berlin

  War, Tyrants, Yesterday

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Bourgeois

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Self, Discipline

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Rickson Gracie

  Opposites, Mma

  "A celebration of agitation". Arizona Daily Star, July 26, 2002.

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• Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Crush, Pay

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• True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wise, Consistency, Way

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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