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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Conformity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

4.3 · 40 votes · 104 reads

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As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

Conformity

Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

4.3 · 49 votes

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity

John F. Kennedy

PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

4.5 · 48 votes

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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Conformity

PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

4.1 · 46 votes

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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

3.6 · 54 votes

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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

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Albert Einstein

PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

4.5 · 51 votes · 125 reads

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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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WriterRussian1818 · 19th century

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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.

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AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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Vincent van Gogh

PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

4.7 · 28 votes · 198 reads

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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the o

Conformity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
3.7 · 22 votes · 163 reads
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.3 · 38 votes · 139 reads
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
3.1 · 7 votes · 178 reads
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James Baldwin
WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century
3.2 · 23 votes · 152 reads
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall Mcluhan
EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century
3.6 · 64 votes · 200 reads
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
3.8 · 43 votes · 144 reads
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his acti
Friedrich Schiller
PoetGerman1759 · 18th century
4.0 · 36 votes · 141 reads
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
4.7 · 59 votes · 96 reads
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