We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... 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. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.
H.P. LovecraftTag: truth atheism conformity emotion atheist honor value absurdity evidence indoctrination orthodox bias cheat brainwashing falsity religionists
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
Howard ZinnTag: individuality confidence hope conformity self-assurance declaration-of-independence non-conformity resolves
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George OrwellTag: sexuality conformity profanity control classism
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
János BolyaiTag: conformity
This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can bomb bus-loads of tourists, burn the American flag, but they are not shooting the enemy. It is already with them, inside them, what makes them resentful, defensive, what makes them no longer confident of their vision of the world.
Leila AboulelaTag: conformity irreversible
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
Mark TwainTag: conformity
The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
Tennessee WilliamsTag: conformity
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo MayTag: conformity
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTag: individuality greatness virtue conformity zeitgeist flaws era
It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.
H. Beam PiperTag: education conformity faces educational-system
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