Quotes about Conformity
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
— Anonymous
They shall see eye to eye.
— Anonymous
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
— Billy Graham
Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?
— Francine Rivers
The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.
— Frank Herbert
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.
— Madeleine L'Engle
On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?
— Madeleine L'Engle
the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others.
— Mensah Oteh
Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.
— Amos Oz
Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.
— Andrew Murray
Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?
— Andrew Murray