(114 quotes found)
“Even non conformists conform, they conform to non conformity itself”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
Rollo May
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown
“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
Oscar Wilde
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
Irving Wallace
“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -- or can't -- join the Big Parade.”
Bette Midler
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
Peter Ustinov
“Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”
Carl Rogers
