Conformity Quotes

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.