I've always found it hard to do what I'm told - I'm not very good at conforming.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.
I hate conforming to what people expect me to do.
Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
