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Definition of Conformity

Conformity

  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.
  2. Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

Conformity Quotations

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs
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Conformity Translations

conformity in Spanish is conformidad
conformity in Swedish is likhet

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