453 Quotes About Conformity

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

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

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

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

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

Conform and be dull.

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.