Conformity Quotes

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner

Half, Ruined, Wholly

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
David McCallum

Fear, Energy, Creative

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Elihu Root

Power, Control, Idea

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Bill Griffith

Community, Imitation, Mindless

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso

Union, Rules, Member

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
Edward Everett

Government, Last, Direction

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Bryant McGill

Education, Yourself, Dangerous

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
Nicolas Malebranche

Faith, Fear, Long

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Character, Feelings, Moral

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Law, Show, Difference

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Life, Law, Wish

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
Francis Wright

Opinions, Pay, Teach

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
Godfried Danneels

Faith, Philosophy, Understand

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
Godfried Danneels

Faith, Easy, Issues

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
Karel Reisz

Big, Desire, Simply

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos Bolyai

Nature, Violence, Nor

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Van Doren

While, Race, Sheep

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