(114 quotes found)
“The SECOND you start trying to change me, the moment I detach myself from your presence.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Amidst a sea of company men and women I struggle in vain attempts to fit my triangular mind into a square holed culture”
Tamara Aw
“Generation Me has grown up believing it's more important to 'do your own thing' than conform to the group. Unfortunately that also means people of this generation are more likely to be inconsiderate of other people.”
Jean Twenge
“We all conform to the urge of being the non-conformity.”
“Conformity in light of the favorable opposition, makes one equally weak as thy enemy.”
LeRoy Nellis II
“I don't like to go with the flow because most rivers end in a waterfall with sharp rocks at the bottom”
Lobo James
“There are a lot of things in town that are non-conforming and are grandfathered in. The new guy across the street looks at it and thinks it's legal and puts one up, too.”
Paul Benson
“One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.”
Janos Bolyai
“In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading — one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing — is a subversive force.”
Jane Smiley
“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."”
Robert Anton Wilson
