#conform

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ↗

— Bette Midler

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#conform #finer #kind #lethargy #once

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. ↗

— Liz Phair

#am #back #break #conform #early

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#cowardice #fashionable #level #lower #than

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#conformity #died #dissent #ever #lifetime

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#beneficial #business #conducted #conform #continue

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#america #choice #choose #conformity #nothing

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#conformism #conformity #difference #differences #freedom

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#anything #conform #conformist #hates #nonconformist

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#conform #hear #i #i can #i wish