The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

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.

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

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based instead on mutual respect honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Ardent love or desire introduced as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being to be in every respect conformed to him and in that way to enjoy him.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual you know the individual the person who doesn't conform.

In the traditional urban novel there is only survival or not. The suburban idea the conformist idea that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

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.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything but I wanted to be an actress.

I for one hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice peace and brotherhood.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

If you stand up and be counted from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize obey and conform to their choices.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.