Quotes about Conformity

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.