Quotes about Conformity
As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.
- Virginia Woolf
I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.
- Charles Dickens
I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.
- Charles Dickens
But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.
- James Montgomery Boice
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
- Gia Coppola
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
- Aldous Huxley
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
- Virginia Woolf
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
- Thomas Paine
Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
- Thomas Paine
Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.
- Thomas Watson
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2
- Norman Vincent Peale