Quotation About Conformity

Stubborness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. 

Glen Beaman

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.  

Norman Mailer

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.  

Author Unknown

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. 

Michael Korda

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. 

Mary Wortley Montagu

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.  

La Bruyère

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. 

Robert Peel

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.  

Vincent Van Gogh

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.  

Walter Bagehot

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. 

Bethania McKenstry

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.  

Romain Rolland

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body.  He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. 

George Santayana

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.  

Christopher Morley

We submit to the majority because we have to.  But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.  

Ambrose Bierce

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  

George Bernard Shaw

A new idea is delicate.  It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.  

Charlie Brower

I am not eccentric.  It's just that I am more alive than most people.  I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.  

Dame Edith Sitwell

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.  The only completely consistent people are the dead.  

Aldous Huxley

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.  

S.I. Hayakawa

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.  

Alfred North Whitehead

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.  

John Stuart Mill

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice.  Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. 

E.H. Chapin

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs.  But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.  

Max Beerbohm

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.  George Bernard Shaw