#conform

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. ↗

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

#desire #end #full #get #god

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

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#dead #every #honors #live #society

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

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#conform #finer #kind #lethargy #once

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#cowardice #fashionable #level #lower #than

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. ↗