Browsing Topic Best Conformity Quotes

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Part of the problem of our present moment of such moral decay and spiritual decrepitude is too much conformity, too much complacency, too much complicity, and too much cowardliness.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

People would rather be wrong than be different.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody’s friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.