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Quotes about Conformity

Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.
- Dorothy Sayers
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
- Billy Sunday
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
- Ben Carson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
- William Faulkner
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
- Mahatma Gandhi
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson