Conformity Quotes

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.

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.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.