(114 quotes found)
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it”
Charles Dudley Warner
“I give society and conformity the middle finger”
Johnny Li
“The virtue in most request is conformity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!”
Wendy O. Williams
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”
Jacob Bronowski
“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Our expenses are all for conformity.”
“Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.”
William Arthur Ward
“Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.”
Robert Lindner
“Conform and be dull.”
James Frank Dobie