Conformity frightens me.

Conformity frightens me.

[“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” - Rollo May]

Conformity in thought; conformity in belief; conformity in deed. All are to the detriment of the advancement of man.

[“While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all” - Oscar Wilde]

Conformity kills creativity - yet creates fear.

[“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy]

Conformity discourages alternate thoughts; alternate viewpoints; alternate solutions.

[“A free society cherishes non-conformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.” - Henry Steele Commager]

Conformity often precedes backlash against those who will not conform.

[“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.” - Carl Van Doren]

Conformity is the unfortunate consequence of mankind's congenital desire to be accepted by the herd.

[“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” - Colin Wilson]

Conformity it is an affliction from which mankind must, but is not likely to, be cured.

[“Society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.” - Mignon McLaughlin]

Conformity is subservience to a false concept - that consensus is a necessity for societal benefit.

[“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.” - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.]

Conformity sacrifices individuality, principle; character.

[“Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.” - Jane Rule]

Conformity disparages the axiom that the original thoughts of a single human can impact the world.

[“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way - the path to privilege and prestige; while dissidence carries personal costs.” - Noah Chomsky]

Conformity is the harbinger of apocryphal harmony and it is the executioner of quintessence.

[“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.” - Peter Ustinov]

Conformity is NOT equivalent to equality. Equality is the essence, conformity is the corruption.

[“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]

Conformity is the death of individual liberty.

[“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.” - Irving Wallace]

Conformity frightens me.