Conformity Quotes

• I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

  

  Suzanne Farrell
  • Want
  • Ballet
  • Disciplined

• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Diversity
  • Modern
  • Oppressed

• So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Maturity
  • Passions
  • Grow Up

• A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Art
  • Frightening

• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  

  Rollo May
  • Courage
  • Soulmate
  • Fearlessness

• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Different
  • Cat
  • Advantage

• To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Harmony
  • Opposition
  • Conformity

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