“While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all”
Oscar Wilde
“I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
Peter Ustinov
“The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them”
Aristotle
“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”