| "The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." »Rita Mae Brown |
| "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from." »Peter Ustinov |
| "The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals." »Richard F. Lovelace |
| "To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." »Irving Wallace |
| "In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris |
| "Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "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." »Walker Best |
| "We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot |
| "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 any cost." »Thomas J. Watson |
| "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." »Carl R. Rogers |
| "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 obedience to these laws." »Pope Pius XI |
| "Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will" »Thomas a Kempis |
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