Quotes About Conformity

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.

You can either allow the voice of the Lord to break, mold, and conform you to His will, or you can ignore His Word and let the inevitable judgments of life do the job more slowly and painfully. But you will be broken.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?