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“We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.”

Knows Way Doe Divine Holy Unique Standards Holiness Conform Unattainable

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.”

Self Pay Self Love Concern Greed Currents Attractive Reverse Altruism Conform Exploits Narcissistic Lives Of Others Narcissist Adjectives Concern For Others Meanings Of Words

Author:Gore Vidal

“The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”

“Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.”

People Thinking Knows Lost Advice Instruction Conform

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.”

Men Wells Opinion Easier Conform

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.”

Made Law My Own Break Suicide Property Conform Murderer Obliged My Own Life Crooks

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.”

Doe Character Conformity Conform Woe Conformist Non Conformity Clique Non Conformist

Author:Eric Hoffer

“If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.”

People Ifs Use Virtue Expectations Come Up Punishment Gossip Conform Administrative

Author:Confucius

“To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.”

Knows Truth Action Earth Heaven Crime Misfortunes Mistaken Conform Heaven And Earth

Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.”

People Ifs Looks Ideas Hurt Dumb Clothings Conform Items

Author:Andy Rooney

“An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.”

Trying Doe Important Opinion Originals Important Things Accepted Conform

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.”

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.”

Opinion Convinced Conformity Conform Ruined Nonconformity Singularity

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.”

Should Ends Body Death Worry Alive Concern Life And Death Conform End Of Life Facade Physical Body Love And Death Spiritual Death

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“For all have not the gift of martyrdom.”

Conformity Conform Martyrdom Nonconformity

Book:THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND

Source: THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND

“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

Men Earth Force Opinion Conscience Slave Conformity Conform Public Opinion Prosecution

Book:Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts

Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts

“I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.”

People Should President Brother Conform

Author:Billy Carter

“The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.”

People Law Secret Architecture Proportion Cosmic Conform End Times Spend Time Cathedrals

Author:Theodor Schwenk

“If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.”

Ifs Has Beens Democracy Duty Majority Minorities Conform Pursued Approved

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.”

States Government Belief Church Religious Behinds Support Particular Pressure Financial Minorities Conform Approved Religious Belief Prestige Prevailing Indirect Financial Support

Author:Hugo Black

“Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?”

May Doe States Three Force Church Cases Support Citizens Authority Property Establishment Conform Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State Federalist Papers

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.”

Should Trying Stars Ideals Latin Conform Movie Star

Author:Rosie Perez

“When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.”

Thinking Knows Trying Today Culture Grew Grew Up Dominant Conform Dominant Culture

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

Doe Reality Ideals Conformity Conform

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.”

People Mind Care Form Given Leader Elements Don't Care Bunch Conclusion I Don't Care Conform Plato Plato S

Author:Dick Costolo

“When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.”

People Kids Groups Conform Large Groups

Author:Sean Durkin

“I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.”

Values Moral Virtue Morality Judgment Standards Bases Atheist Objectives Contrast Conform Moral Values Theist Moral Judgment

Author:William A. Dembski

“The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced”

Life Doe Use Opportunity Individual Community Groups Movement Diversity Contrary Arise Collectives Uniqueness Conform Being Me Separateness

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.”

Should Believe Country Body Moving Program Should Have International Nuclear Checks Regulation Conform Right Direction

Author:Abdallah II

“But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.”

Thinking Knows Realizing Interesting Pressure Conform

Author:Felicity Jones