(101 quotes found)
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
Rollo May
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown
“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
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.”
William S. Burroughs
“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”
David Bohm
“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
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
Peter Ustinov
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