Conformity Quotes

Most popular conformity quotes

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

individuality

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

change the world

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer quote.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

mankind

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. - J. Paul Getty quote.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Comedy

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown quote.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
A free society cherishes non-conformity.  It knows that from a non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom.

eccentricity

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost quote.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

individuality

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming...from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. - Learned Hand quote.
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming...from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing quote.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

thinking individuality

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair.  But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. - A. J. P. Taylor quote.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair.  But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A. J. P. Taylor The Trouble Makers: Dissent Over Foreign Policy, 1792–1939
Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies? - Edward Young quote.
Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

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