The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. – Dr. Robert Anthony
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? – David Bohm
I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself. – Rita Mae Brown
Take the tone of the company you are in. – Lord Chesterfield
Conform and be dull. – J. Frank Doble
For all have not the gift of martyrdom. – John Dryden
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein
You dont get harmony when everybody sings the same note. – Doug Floyd
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. – Benjamin Franklin
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they dont want to buy things they dont need to impress people they dislike. – Emile Henry Gauvreau
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. – Eric Hoffer
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Conformity, humility, acceptance… with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. – Robert Lindner
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. – Archibald MacLeish
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. – Marshall McLuhan
