Quotes about Conformity
There are far too many Christians who believe that theological conformity is a prerequisite for community.
- Shane Claiborne
If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
- John Updike
This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
- Ayn Rand
So the advocacy of "ethnicity," means racism plus tradition i.e., racism plus conformity i.e., racism plus staleness.
- Ayn Rand
I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. "Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids' heads.
- Barbara Kingsolver
They want other people to be the way they want them to be. They often want to clone them, and they surround themselves with "yes" people—people who won't challenge them, people who are weaker than they.
- Stephen Covey
People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.
- Eugene Peterson
Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.
- Bill Johnson
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.
- Glenn Beck
If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?
- Maya Angelou
The real question is, will we as Americans, accustomed to freedom, continue to sheepishly submit to the purveyors of political correctness without recognizing its erosive effects on our freedom?
- Ben Carson
Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled;...As obedient children, do not conform to the
- Beth Moore