The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Votes: 5
Jim HightowerConformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. Votes: 3
Robert M. LindnerConformity"the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 3
Mark TwainIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Votes: 3
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Votes: 3
Jack KerouacConformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. Votes: 3
Woodrow WilsonWhen I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Votes: 3
Kenneth Lee PikeWe are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. Votes: 2
Charles Dudley WarnerIn America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Votes: 2
Peter UstinovTo Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition. Votes: 0
Evan OsnosThe race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Votes: 0
Carl Clinton Van DorenThe human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. Votes: 0
Vilayat Inayat KhanThe only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceWoe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. Votes: 0
Eric HofferBeing a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity. Votes: 0
Alfie KohnRealism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerThe power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoOrder cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMagick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. Votes: 0
Aleister CrowleyThe goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. Votes: 0
Richard LovelaceAll moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. Votes: 0
Charles HodgeOur biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaOne can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both. Votes: 0
George H. SmithTo go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council. Votes: 0
Kofi AnnanSin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state Votes: 0
Augustus Hopkins StrongA big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. Votes: 0
Karel ReiszA person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIn conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death. Votes: 0
Maximus the ConfessorOne must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. Votes: 0
Janos BolyaiI now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... Votes: 0
Che GuevaraThere is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyQuestions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonCharacter is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonWe come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity Votes: 0
Shane KoyczanGroup 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. Votes: 1 Bette Midler
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. Votes: 2 Christopher Morley