#conformity

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#distinction #love

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#conformity #died #dissent #ever #lifetime

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

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#america #choice #choose #conformity #nothing

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#conformism #conformity #difference #differences #freedom

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#half #ruined #should #wholly #without

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

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

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences