#conform

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#conformity #cowardice #dead #even #fish

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#conformists #democracy #dissidents #freedom #gives

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#conformity #dead #demoralize #hope #i

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

I just don't conform very well. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#i #just #very #well

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. ↗

— Chris Guillebeau

#non-conformist #uplifting #art

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conform #either #expected #go #going

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#equality #humanity #society #age