Conformity Quotes

The Eleventh Commandment”… has become… You must adjust! Adjustment, that synonym for conformity… is the theme of our swan song, the piper’s tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren’s melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be as good as that of the conformists.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that […]

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.