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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
- Lindsay Duncan
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What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
- Dallas Willard
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People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.
- Paul Stanley
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It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.
- Nelson Algren
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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.
- Freda Adler
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There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
- Godfried Danneels
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Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
- Godfried Danneels
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Surveillance breeds conformity.
- Glenn Greenwald
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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
- Jonathan Franzen
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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
- Evan Osnos
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When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.
- Trevor Paglen
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We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.
- Travis Knight
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
- Hermann von Helmholtz
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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.
- David McCallum
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
- Jane Rule
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
- Jacob Bronowski
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I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.
- Keith Hernandez
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Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
- Wendy O. Williams
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You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.
- Thomas Jane
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
- Janos Bolyai
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Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
- Robert Anthony
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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
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The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
- Carter G. Woodson
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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
- Edward Everett
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My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
- King Tuff
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
- Charles Dudley Warner
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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
- David Icke
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
- Amy Tan
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
- Bette Midler
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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.
- Hermann von Helmholtz
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
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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.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
- Wayne Dyer
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower
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