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.
I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
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.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
