#conform

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

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#approved #character #conduct #conform #does

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#any #conform #every #expect #group

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

#around #bonds #break #came #conform

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

— Karel Reisz

#big #conformity #desire #element #regard

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#british #cinema #conformist #dull #had

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#absolute necessity #actual #conform #every #into

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#deepen #each #grace #his #image