Quotes about Conformity
I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.
— Alice Hoffman
Do not be like cows grazing watching the butcher.
— Alice Walker
You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.
— Joel Osteen
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
— Edith Wharton
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
— Samuel Johnson
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
— Earl Nightingale
Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
— Anonymous
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
— Anonymous
They shall see eye to eye.
— Anonymous
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
— Billy Graham
Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?
— Francine Rivers
The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.
— Frank Herbert