Conformity Quotes

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.