Quotes with conformity

Quotes 21 till 26 of 26.

• The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

  Carl Van Doren
  American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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• The virtue in most request is conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

  Bill Griffith
  American cartoonist (1944 - )
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• 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
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

  Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unfortunately
• cautiously
• infallible
• attainment
• stupefying
• yourself

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