Conformity Quotes - page 7

If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize. (Blaise Pascal)
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. The order that springs from it is never confronted with what it claims to be or with the real interests of human beings. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. View quote
Jose Manuel Barroso
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. View quote
Robert Anthony
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. View quote
Michele Bachmann
By the nineteenth century... new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers... The government locked you in a house of penitence-a penetentiary-where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease. View quote
Howard Bloom
Humor is a conformity enforcer clothed in the garb of congeniality. It focuses on others' weaknesses, disasters, stupiidities, and abnormalities. View quote
Howard Bloom
A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements... (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments. View quote
Howard Bloom
The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will. View quote
Aleister Crowley
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. (Steven Brust)
Goodness is not the pursuit of conformity. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. View quote
Frank Gehry
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? View quote
Thomas à Kempis
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall. View quote
Grace Slick
We have to let God's love break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. View quote
Karen Armstrong
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Democratic nations must seek and find unity in diversity, while Communists achieve unity through conformity. View quote
Walter Reuther
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. (Oscar Wilde)
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. View quote
Christopher McCandless
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will. View quote
William Law
Revelation ... unavoidably challenges the institution and established power, no matter what form this may take. But the adulteration by political power has changed all this. Christianity has become a religion of conformity. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Would you define Good for me, Citizen Abbot?” "Certainly. Good is that force within us which inspires men to acts of conformity and subservience. The worship of Good is essentially the worship of oneself, and therefore the only true worship. The self which one worships is the ideal social being: the man content in his niche in society, yet ready to creatively advance his status. Good is gentle, since it is a true reflection of the loving and pitying universe. Good is continually changing in its aspects, although it comes to us in the... You have a strange look on your face, young man. View quote
Robert Sheckley