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There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

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The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and...

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So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing ...

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College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read t...

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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom a...

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

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my sta...

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The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is...

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I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

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make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never...

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You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

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Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Ilych

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and...

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Marge PiercyDance the Eagle to Sleep

It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

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Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissi...

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Noam ChomskyNecessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...

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Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not dimini...

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to liv...

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This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can...

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man go...

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accom...

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. I...

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient dist...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance and Other Essays

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...

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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

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

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother you...

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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

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There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all...

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When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and ...

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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in...

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If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...

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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

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A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...

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

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

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Barbara EhrenreichBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

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The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

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It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

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It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

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God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

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Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

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One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

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The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

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Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

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The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

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It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

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It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

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God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

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Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

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One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

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The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

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Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

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The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

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It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

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It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

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God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

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Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

Show More

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

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The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

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Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

Show More

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

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It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

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It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

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God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

Show More

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

Show More

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us dow...

Show More

The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across o...

Show More

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get...

Show More

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world sy...

Show More

It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi...

Show More

It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r...

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God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert it...

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The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...

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