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.
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.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Being strange is not necessarily bad. . . Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and. . . with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.
All art is based on non-conformity.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity. . . Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. . . Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Never say No when the world says Aye.