Conforming Quotes

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
― Robert Musil

“I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“for me
obedience to another is the decay
of self”
― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

“Apparently I couldn’t even pretend to be normal.”
― Tom Upton, Pants on Fire

“(T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Conform or die. That was his motto. I am oddly doing bits of both, each half-assedly.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.”
― Evita Ochel

“There will be those who love you for your hair and those who love the beauty of your mind and those who adore the warmth of your heart. but there will be those who will leave you for not conforming to their type of hair, mind and heart. And there will be those who will live/die to see your bad hair days, derailed mind, and broken heart. but what matters most is Who You Are”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get lost.” Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure—especially during the years of adolescence—is an almost irresistible force.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside down
when millions of Christians can’t even keep it right side up today?” The answer is they didn’t conform their faith to match the world. They had the truth, and they refused to water it down. They had a faith that would not compromise.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Part of the unique downfall of mankind is our innate desire to conform regardless of how madly and badly everyone else is behaving!”
― Mango Wodzak, 2020 Vision

“One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of “the organization man” on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, rather than being transformed by the renewing of their minds.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Every possible pressure is being brought to bear upon Christians
to make them conform to the standards of the present world . . .be a committed follower of Jesus Christ.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“God’s purpose for us is that we ought to be
conformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“Speaking about anthros: “Spear decided, ‘Something is wrong. When we live with our spirits, we become more like them. They dance. We dance. They steal and rape women. We steal and rape women. They fight and kill. We fight and kill. But these nabas don’t do what they say their spirit does. They say he’s generous. But they’re not. They say he’s kind. But they’re not.”
― Mark Andrew Ritchie, Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story

“Instead of conforming, Stay consistent.”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse, Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud