Conformity Quotes

"One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The virtue in most request is conformity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity." — Carl Doren
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"It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law." — Richard Butler
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"The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them" — Aristotle
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"Our expenses are all for conformity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see." — Bennett Miller
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"We are confident that our revised proposal is fully in conformity with the ruling of the WTO arbitrators, ... It was always our intention that the level of protection would not change under our new import regime." — Mariann Boel
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." — John F. Kennedy
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"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -- or can't -- join the Big Parade." — Bette Midler
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself." — Rita Brown
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"For all have not the gift of martyrdom." — John Dryden
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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
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"Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise." — Robert Lindner
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"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
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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." — Voltaire
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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." — Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity." — Eric Hoffer
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"A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses." — Oscar Wilde
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"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." — Irving Wallace
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"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it" — Charles Warner
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