Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
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.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Is there an existence that is only mine?
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
All art is based on non-conformity.
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
Becoming is superior to being.
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.