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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
-James Baldwin
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?
-David Bohm
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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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I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Conform and be dull.
-J. Frank Doble
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
-John Dryden
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
-Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
-Albert Einstein
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
-Doug Floyd
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
-Benjamin Franklin
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I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-Emile Henry Gauvreau
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
-Eric Hoffer
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
-Michael Konda
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
-Robert Lindner
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-Archibald MacLeish
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
-Marshall McLuhan
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books about Conformity & Nonconformity
