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In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.