Conformity Quotes

When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I submit that you and your counterparts in colleges from coast to coast also appear to be the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord bridge. And so long as you shrug your shoulders and abide by it, then by the standards of your grandfathers, you are cultural cowards.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter (sic) resemblance of the Average Man.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.