Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Conformity Quotes
ConformityDevelopmentFreedomIndividualitySociety In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
ConformityFashionGenerationsTrends Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
ConformityHuman NaturePsychologyRebellionSociety The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
ConformityLogicMathematicsNecessityUniversal Laws Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
ConformityFreedomIndividualityPublic Opinion One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
ChildhoodConformityIdentityIndividualitySociety While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
ConformityCritical ThinkingIndependenceIntellectual PrideIntelligence The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
ConformityFoolishnessInsightMajorityWisdom The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
ConformityIndividualitySelf-Perception Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
AdolescenceConformityCourageRiskVulnerability Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off.
ConformityEthicsHerd InstinctIndividual BehaviorMorality Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
BurdenConformityControlFamePrivacy You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
ConformityIndependent ThoughtYouth Education The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
ConformityHeresyJudgmentTolerance The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
ConformityGroupthinkIndividualitySocial Influence When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
ConformityContrastDiscipleshipInfluenceWitnessing Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
ConformityCreativityEducationIndividualitySociety What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
BelongingConformityIndividuality In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
CognitionConformityDevianceGroup BehaviorRationality In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
ConformityDesire for FreedomInner ConflictRegretSelf-awareness I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
ChangeConformityInnovationProgressSkepticism New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
ConformityFreedomIndividualityLiving LifeMadness Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
ConformityResistance to ChangeSocietal Judgment Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
