453 Quotes About Conformity

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

If you conform, you can never reform.

Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.

In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a "crowd contagion.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slight degree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employed on the side of the prevailing opinion, really does deter people from professing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who profess them.

I don't make the rules, I just make it up.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

Great people have one thing in common: they do not conform.