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.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

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.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

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.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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.

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.

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.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.