Quotes About Conformity

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I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

It might take just as much effort to fit in as it does to stand out, because you're standing up for yourself. It's those who take a risk and take chances who achieve greatness. Those who play it safe never can.

the people... they are church-broken, nation-broken -- they drink and pray and piss in the one place. Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man. The people love their church and know it, as a dog knows where he was made to conform, and there he returns by his instinct.

Resistance is useless.

O Lord Jesus, with Thy most kind and merciful, and yet most powerful, hand, deign to form my heart so that it may be like Thine.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.

I mean, what happened to developing the individual, to encouraging subversion and independence? I thought that's what this place was all about. Instead, it's, you know, just the old bourgeois concept of togetherness–i.e., conformity–under the guise of PC liberalism. It's fucking oppressive, man. It's downright totalitarian.

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.