#conformity

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#half #ruined #should #wholly #without

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different. ↗

— David Icke

#equality #humanity #society #equality

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

#credulity #man #race #sheep #while

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#allows #always #appear #catholic #catholic faith

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. ↗

— David McCallum

#conformity #create #creative #creative energy #drain

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#big #conformity #desire #element #regard

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#catholic faith #conformity #example #faith #far

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

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conformity #men