#conform

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. ↗

— Evan Davis

#adhere #behaviour #cheat #conform #doing

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#conform #lifestyle #make #men #must

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you? ↗

— Steve Toltz

#crime

However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#humor #indiviualism #humor

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

I am a believer and a conformist. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#believer #conformist #i #i am

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#answer #asserting #attack #character #conformity

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#conform #does #ideal #reality