Conformity Quotes
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Subject: Conformity Quotes :: Growth QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us
Howard Mumford Jones
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A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Subject: Opposites QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
Avram Noam Chomsky
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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To be one`s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
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I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you`re not married and having children, it`s like your life is empty or you`re a communist meanie.
Bill Maher
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(On his Idols) "For me Johnny Depp and Paul Newman. Their choices and their non-conformity attract and inspire me.."
Adam Garcia
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John Kennedy
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Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
David McCallum
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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Al Sinclair
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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.
Alan Christensen
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Andre Grjebine
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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Alberto Madrigal
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Alex Eckelberry
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
Jane Rule
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect
Anne DuBois
Subject: Knowledge QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that every...
Ashley McFarland
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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt LeBlanc
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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
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of `crackpot` than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at ...
Alan Hawthorne
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely per...
Amir Attaran
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Ahmed Bedier
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obe...
Adm C. Turner Joy
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of `crackpot` than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at ...
Adrienne Freeman
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To be one`s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
