Quotes about Conformity
The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.
- Alfred Edersheim
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
- Alice Hoffman
In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.
- Alice Hoffman
And yet he imagined leaping into the blue-green water, thousands of miles from here, in a land where no one followed the rules set forth, where a sin might float like a flower in a fountain and a man was free to do as he pleased.
- Alice Hoffman
I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.
- Alice Hoffman
Do not be like cows grazing watching the butcher.
- Alice Walker
You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.
- Joel Osteen
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
- Edith Wharton
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- Samuel Johnson
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
- Earl Nightingale
Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
- Anonymous
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
- Anonymous