Definition of Conformity

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Definition of Conformity
	Conformity Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. Compliance with the usages of the Established Church. Related Definitions: Agreement, Between, By, Character, Church, Compliance, Congruity, Correspondence, Established, Followed, Form, In, Manner, Of, Or, Resemblance, The, To, With

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

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

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

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Robert Anthony

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson

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

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

Conformity Translations

conformity in Spanish is conformidad
conformity in Swedish is likhet

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