Thomas Jane

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

American Actor

Tia Mowry

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

American Actress

Antonio Munoz Molina

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Spanish Writer

Michael Crichton

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.

American Author

Grace Slick

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

American Musician

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

American Judge

Irving Wallace

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

Jacob Bronowski

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

English Scientist

Jim Hightower

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

American Activist

Rollo May

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

American Psychologist

Conformity ensures safety by following rules designed to prevent accidents or issues.

Safety Standards

In many professions, conformity is required to maintain quality and professionalism.

Professional Requirement

Employees often need to show conformity with the culture of their organization.

Organizational Culture

Conformity to social norms often leads to acceptance in a community or society.

Social Acceptance

Sometimes, individuals conform to fit in with a group, even if it goes against their beliefs.

Peer Pressure

Travelers sometimes practice conformity to respectfully engage with different cultures.

Cultural Integration

Conformity in design creates a cohesive and harmonious appearance across various elements.

Design Unity

Businesses use conformity in branding to ensure a consistent message and image.

Branding Consistency

In law, decisions are often made in conformity with previous cases or established laws.

Legal Decisions

Legal outcomes depend on showing conformity between actions taken and the legal framework.

Evidence Aligning

 Mindlessly taking the first small step. Dehumanization of others. De-individuation of self. Diffusion of personal responsibility. Blind obedience to authority. Uncritical conformity to group norms. Passive tolerance of evil through inaction, or indifference. And it happens when you're in a new or unfamiliar situation.

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people.

Bring on the learning...

 return to normality that's an important thing for people to remember we're only part of the way back to the diversity that we once had and so this really is a revolution people are really interested now in flavor and they're less interested in conformity and I think

Beer According to a...

 features to do certain things don't be surprised if it does it and if you design a school system based on the principles of industrialism and conformity and you strangle it with a culture of standardized testing which bleeds the life out of teachers and

Expanding our definition...

 is that a society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity and obedience and submission, which is why every tyrant, the most overt to the most subtle, craves that system. Conversely, even more importantly,

Glenn Greenwald: Why...

 The study found that even in companies with diversity policies and inclusion programs, employees struggle to be themselves at work because they believe conformity is critical to their long-term career advancement.

The danger of hiding who...

 All too often though, the anti-hero is killed, or brainwashed to return to conformity with the masses. No heroic triumph here, no brave individual standing up against impersonal institutions of a modern world,

An anti-hero of one's...

 Well, one study -- actually, several studies in neuroscience -- show that when we're afraid, at least three things happen. We become more accepting of authoritarianism, conformity and prejudice.

What it's like to be a...

 Education under "No Child Left Behind" is based on not diversity but conformity. What schools are encouraged to do is to find out what kids can do across a very narrow spectrum of achievement.

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