Conformity Quotes

Conformity in matters of human performance is a crime against yourself.

Be different: conform.

Never forget that only dead fish swims with the stream.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

To rebel in season is not to rebel.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you’re not always explaining things.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is more difficult silently to obey our own interior promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperaments and our gifts – if we have any.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great man any more than you can manufacture gold.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.