Conformity is the only real fashion crime
Sophistication is upscale conformity.
Is there an existence that is only mine?
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return. . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.
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.
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.
I propose. . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'