Conformity
Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.
Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.
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Conformity Quotations
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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.
H. P. Lovecraft
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Conformity Translations
conformity in Spanish is conformidad
conformity in Swedish is likhet
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