Conformity Quotes and Sayings

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
- Norman Mailer

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

If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.
- John Allston

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau

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.
- Friedrich August von Hayek

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
- Robert Ingersoll

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
- S.I. Hayakawa

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
- Karel Reisz

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
- Robert Peel

Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.
- Stephen A. Kallis

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
- Voltaire

History does not teach fatalism.  There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.  People get the history they deserve.
- Charles de Gaulle

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
- Moritz Guedemann

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.  The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley

Labels are for filing.  Labels are for clothing.  Labels are not for people.
- Martina Navratilova

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Seneca

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.
- Charles Dudley Warner

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
- William Faulkner

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories.  Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
- W.J. Reichmann

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