Conformity Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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 modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  

  David Edward
  • People
  • Individual
  • Common

• 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

• 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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