Conformity Quotes - Page 13

• Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Curiosity, Important

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.24, New Society Publishers

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• No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Struggle, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Socialism: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

  Solomon Asch

  Education, Strong, Black And White

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• Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Giving, Caves, May

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

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• Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Soul, Supremacy

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Tradition, Imitation

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• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Public Opinion

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Expression

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• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  Antonin Artaud

  Storm, Climate, Earth

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.484, Univ of California Press

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• With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

  Betsy Prioleau

  Strong Women, Independent, Driven

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• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Heart, Cake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.

  Max Horkheimer

  Taken, Mean, Reality

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

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• Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

  Anais Nin

  Break Up, Creating, People

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• So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Men, Long

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• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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• Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Growing Knowledge, Important

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• But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Lying, Historical

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.162, Beacon Press

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• I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, School, Consistency

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Council, Security

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• Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

  R. D. Laing

  Thinking, Smell, Self

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest. They see the world as an urgent struggle between true believers and nonbelievers. They attempt to impose strict litmus tests and insist on conformity. They demonize dissent and consider all political opponents their enemies. Fear is their favourite tactic as they try to divide and conquer

  John Avlon

  Struggle, Small Numbers, People

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• There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Fashion, Teaching, Writing

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Moving, Reality, Issues

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• No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shepherds, Different, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.86, Penguin

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