“ 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- Copy
- 716
“ Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
- 439
“ Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Conformity, humility, acceptance… with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. ”
- Robert Lindner- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. ”
- Howard M. Jones- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ”
- Dr. Robert Anthony- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. ”
- Carl Van Doren- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
- 3K
“ The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
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“ Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ”
- Charles Dudley Warner- Copy
- 3K
“ Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
- 680
“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”
- William Burroughs- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
- 4K
“ I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. ”
- Noel Coward- Copy
- 3.2K
“ What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode? ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections. Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling. Or just after. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
- 4K
“ What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
- 3K
“ The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ”
- Ivan Turgenev- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 724
“ A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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