Conformity Quotes - Page 22

• If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Idiot, Accord, My Own

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Political, Due Process Of Law, Disloyalty

  "Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (television documentary), 7 Mar. 1954

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• There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

  John Elder Robison

  People, Routine, World

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• How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

  Saul Bellow

  Groups, Want, Opinion

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• ... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

  Shirley Brice Heath

  Would Be, World, Definitions

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• We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

  Lydia Millet

  Long, Distinguished, Hard

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.166, Soft Skull Press

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• Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

  Paul Vixie

  Rebel, Path, Conformist

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• The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

  John le Carre

  Christian, Real, Lying

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Patriotism, Democracy

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• I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

  Tim Burton

  People, Wonder, Mental Health

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

  Carl Rogers

  Different, Mental Health, Dangerous

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Passion, Two Sides, Silence

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• I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Real, Gone, Saws

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

  Roseanne Barr

  Artist, Nerd, Listening

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• Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

  Lewis Mumford

  Play, Long, People

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, School, Thinking

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Silence

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• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  Teresa of Avila

  Taken, Ignorance, Catholic

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.200, A&C Black

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• ... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.

  Paula Sharp

  Children, Ocean, Opposites

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

  Alan Cumming

  Different, Easy, Instant

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• About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.

  Catherine Wilson

  Issues, Justice, Research

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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