Quotes about Conformity

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.