C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.”
Source: Don't blame the mirror
“Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ...”
Source: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
“Conformity is a Sin.”
“Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Conformity is an imitation of grace.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Conformity is deformity”
“Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.”
Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool
“Conformity is not the amity of the essence of the mind but the limit of the presence of the whole mind”
“Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.”
“Conformity is the death of imagination — it is stagnation and a lack of human progress.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime”
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.”
“Conformity is the tool of the tyrant. What one chooses to conform to is critical. The Empire now rules by information superhighways to our soul. The Apple a day we have bitten is the Appian Way to make a phoney ‘I’ linked to algorithms of stupor.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.”
“Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.”
“Conformity makes us blind. Our unwillingness to change keeps us blind.”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”
“Conformity requires us to minimize our differences for the greater good. We fear that if we don't conform, we will be abandoned, but there is no loneliness like having people only see you after you've erased yourself.”
Source: Beyond the Gender Binary
“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.”
“Conformity teaches us the value of our precious worth.”
Source: Watch For The Exit
“Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”
“Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.”
“Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.”
“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“Confound it, Par, how can we lose by trying when by trying we have everything to gain?”
Source: The Scions of Shannara
“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”
Source: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery
“Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.”
“Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!”
“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.”
“Confounding though it seems, to acknowledge our dilemma, that we are no different from any animal coexisting on this planet, ironic really when through the ages, we have struggled with such pretense of something greater.”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”
“Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism.”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“Confront Liars with Truth and they will devastate themselves in course of Time – unless they confess early enough that they lied.”
“Confront not the sandstorm, be the sidewinder inching towards home.”
“Confront only the good.”
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
“Confront the shame and turn it over into self-acceptance, featuring to become the source that nurtures your new self”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.”
Source: The Art of War
“Confront your fears. Every moment spent waiting is a moment lost. The fear of confrontation can be paralyzing, but understand that silence breeds misunderstanding. More silence only amplify the insecurities lurking in the shadows. Believing in the perfect moment to confront silence is a delusion; perfect time is an illusion, it often leads to more silence. The truth is, there will never be a perfect time.”
“Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.”
“Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.”
“Confrontation can serve as a catalyst for necessary change, prompting individuals and communities to address systemic issues and work towards a better future. Avoiding it may provide temporary comfort, but embracing it with courage and empathy paves the way for long-term resolution and growth”
“Confrontation is better than suspicions.”
“Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.”