(114 quotes found)
“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
“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
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Bill Vaughn
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'”
Jonathan Edwards
“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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
“No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God”
William Blackstone
