Being strange is not necessarily bad. . . Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
The American people. . . have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
nothing is more restful than conformity.
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
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.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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.