453 Quotes About Conformity

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.