453 Quotes About Conformity

Many of the men who did not really want to get married are married to women who did not really want to get married.

I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to us, and to shape our inner worlds with such a positive force that our outer worlds have no other choice but to conform.

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

To conform is to be average.

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.