Conformity Quotes

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you’re not always explaining things.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is more difficult silently to obey our own interior promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperaments and our gifts – if we have any.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great man any more than you can manufacture gold.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos.

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

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I submit that you and your counterparts in colleges from coast to coast also appear to be the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord bridge. And so long as you shrug your shoulders and abide by it, then by the standards of your grandfathers, you are cultural cowards.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter (sic) resemblance of the Average Man.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.