453 Quotes About Conformity

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Fashion hides, or diverts attention away from, our uniqueness.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

Find someone who will teach you the variance of doubt, comfort and preference. And sometimes it's your skin and at times it's those who embrace it fearlessly.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.