Quotes About Conformity

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

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

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.