Conformity Quotes - Page 26

• He travels the fastest who travels alone.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Travel, Traveling Alone, Originality

  The Story of the Gadsbys (1890) "L'Envoi"

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• Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Liberty, Alive

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• The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

  Steven Erikson

  War, Civilization, Effort

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• I am myself. That is not enough.

  Sylvia Plath

  Chaos, Enough, Non Conformity

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

  Rollo May

  Courage, Hallmark, Conviction

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• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Learning, Self

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sheep, Waiting

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

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• How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Integrity, Way, Doe

  Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly in 1962. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 117, 1967.

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• I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Real, Pride

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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• To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Groups, Deviants

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• Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

  Ralph Ellison

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  "Invisible Man".

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• In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

  John Stuart Mill

  Order, Break Through, People

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Failure, Acceptance

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

  Alfie Kohn

  Team, Simple, Player

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• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Army, Common Sense, Navy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Age, Realizing, Useful Things

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.42, Random House

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• Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, Doe, Woe

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• Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Utterance, Handsome

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.918, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Law, Evil

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• No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

  Moliere

  Lonely, Way, Stubborn

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Doctrine, Answers, Variables

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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