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" A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. "

" Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! "

Wendy O. Williams

" Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

John F. Kennedy

" Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. "

" Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. "

Jacob Bronowski

" However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. "

William S. Burroughs

" 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

" I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me. "

" I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. "

" 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

" I have a natural tendency to resist conformity. "

Keith Hernandez

" I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. "

Hermann von Helmholtz

" I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist. "

Jonathan Franzen

" It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively. "

" It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity. "

" It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. "

" Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. "

" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "

" Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. "

Andrew Coyle Bradley

" Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. "

Jose Manuel Barroso

" Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. "

Hermann von Helmholtz

" One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. "

" Surveillance breeds conformity. "

Glenn Greenwald

" 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. "

" The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. "

" The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. "

" The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. "

" The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. "

" The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. "

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