#conform

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. ↗

— George Sterling

#conformity #philosophy #prison

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things that are commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#philosophy #run-on-sentence-award #equality

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#concepts #conformity #conservative #consider #correctness

Conforming is not cool. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#cool

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#does #else #even #failures #his

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

#art #artist #authentic #conform #every

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#chose #conform #decision #going #hard

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#conformists #dead #honors #living #troublemakers

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#diversity #age