Quotes About Conformity

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.