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conformity
«If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.»
Author: Carl Rogers
| Keywords:
conformity, disturbed, independence, induces, initiate, initiated, initiating, make for, self-direction, set up, uniqueness
«That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy»
«I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us»
Author: Howard Mumford Jones
| About:
Conformity,
Hope,
Lies,
Youth
| Keywords:
conformity, dead weight, demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, revolt
«In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary»
Author: Kathleen Norris
| About:
Liberty,
Society
| Keywords:
conflict, conformity, individual liberty, permanent, unresolvable
«I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.»
«In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions»
Author: Nathaniel Branden
| About:
Belief,
Culture,
Family,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
conformity, exceptions, family values, heroic, self-expression, self esteem, subculture, valued
«In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
conformity, Freedom of Choice, pressure
«I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Conformity
| Keywords:
communist, conformity, Country Life, resentment
«Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
aversion, aversions, conformity, conspiracies, conspiracy, creators, customs, members, names, on request, realities, reliance, request, requested, self reliance