The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
John Bates Clark

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.
Melinda M. Marshall

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
Budd Schulberg