Quotes about Conformity
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
— Charles Spurgeon
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
— Henry David Thoreau
For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
— Virginia Woolf
With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.
— Virginia Woolf
Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.
— Virginia Woolf
As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.
— Virginia Woolf
I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.
— Charles Dickens
I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.
— Charles Dickens
But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.
— James Montgomery Boice
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower