I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you`re not married and having children, it`s like your life is empty or you`re a communist meanie.
- Bill MaherA red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
- Oscar WildeTo be one`s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
- Irving Wallace"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
- Avram Noam ChomskyIf there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it`s another nonconformist who doesn`t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
- Bill VaughnI, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us
- Howard Mumford JonesConformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John Fitzgerald KennedyThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo MayIt may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
- Stanley Milgram