Conformity Quotes - Page 28

• There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

  Rumi

  Light, Grain, Seeds

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Light, Land

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wish, Inward, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.207, Courier Dover Publications

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• My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

  Tammy Bruce

  Honesty, Political, Understanding

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

  Paula Sharp

  Dimensions, Isolation, States

  Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

  Rumi

  Wine, Existence, Fatigue

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• Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.

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• It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Color, Giving, Non Conformist

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• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Gains, Tick

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• The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

  Jacques Maritain

  Desire, Ends, Existence

  "Action: the Perfection of Human Life" by Jacques Maritain, Sewanee Review, LV (pp. 3-4), 1948.

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• Sophistication is upscale conformity.

  James Richardson

  Sophistication

  James Richardson (2016). “By the Numbers”, p.45, Copper Canyon Press

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

  George Carlin

  Wall, Patriotic, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will always get lots of people thinking you're a jerk. But there are people who appreciate total honesty and questioning of the conformities in our society, and I'm heroic to those people. And I should be. It's an indictment of the rest of society who doesn't get that.

  Bill Maher

  Honesty, Thinking, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And if the soul
  Is to know itself
  It is into a soul
  That it must look:
  The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Mirrors, Soul, Enemy

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• I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

  Peter Høeg

  Heart, Boys, Class

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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