#conformity

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

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

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

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

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#fast #life #nonconformity #family

I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten. ↗

— David James Duncan

#freedom #independence #individuality #freedom

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#conformitying #godliness #life #life

It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path. ↗

— Django Wylie

#life #life-lessons #puns #wordplay #life

-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer! ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#meditation #nonconformity #life

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#conformity #declaration-of-independence #hope #individuality #non-conformity

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. ↗

— Freda Adler

#conformity #contradiction #creative #creature #define