Pastoral Resources

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

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.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is 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.

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.

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

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

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