Conformity Quotes

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive. (Oscar Wilde)
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. View quote
Peter Ustinov
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. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. View quote
Jim Hightower
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. View quote
Irving Wallace
What we need is equality without conformity. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. View quote
William S. Burroughs
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. (Amy Tan)
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. View quote
Carl Van Doren
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. View quote
David McCallum
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. View quote
Elihu Root
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. View quote
Bill Griffith
This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. View quote
Rollo May
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. View quote
Michael Pollan
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. View quote
William O. Douglas
The state of conformity is an imitation of grace. (Simone Weil)
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights-and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well-magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation. View quote
Antonin Artaud