Top 493 Conform Quotes & Sayings

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

I just don't conform very well.

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Society forces you to conform.

To conform is to lose your soul

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

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

Great intimates conform to you...not you to them

I hate the idea of having to conform with what's current and what sounds good on radio at the moment.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.

That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

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

A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.