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.
Conformity Quotes
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.
Call it oddity, eccentricity, humor or what you please, it is evident that the special flavor of mind or manner, which independently of fortune, station, or profession, sets a man apart from his fellows, and which gives the charm of picturesqueness to society is fast disappearing from amongst us. A man may count the odd […]
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.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
The so-called nonconformists travel in groups and woe unto him who doesn’t conform.
