Top Conformity Quotes

Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete resul...

Conformity Definition

(n.) Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

(n.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

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...

From one dog all the dogs bark.

What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the social character suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and m...

She has never understood, nor been able to relate to a herd mentality. She doesn't get along with followers and avoids the bandwagon. She marches to her own tune and does it alone. She's despised by t...

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.

Conformity keeps us closed minded.

The greatest obstacle in understanding the universe is the conformity and fear of truth.

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one...

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and che...

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncer...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.