Conformity Quotes - Page 5

• Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, World

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Life, Motivational, Positivity

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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ideas, Atheism, Peculiar

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• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Judging, Tests, Novelty

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Individualism, Midst

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• I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

  Raoul Dufy

  Law, Hours, Creation

  Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Rebel, Refusal

  L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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• When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Trying, Non Conformity

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• Becoming is superior to being.

  Paul Klee

  Becoming, Superiors, Non Conformity

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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• People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Talking, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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• While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Yield, Charity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

  Austin Osman Spare

  Doctrine

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• I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

  Erykah Badu

  Respect, Thinking, People

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• The things that make me different are the things that make me.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

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• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.423, Princeton University Press

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Animal, Men

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Thinking, Live Your Own Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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• Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Holiness, Today

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