I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes. Marcel Duchamp
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. William Law
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Ambrose Bierce
Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision. Charles de Gaulle
When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history. Randal Marlin
Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty. Truth is beauty, as the poet had said, speaking of science. And it was; the poet had been right (they weren't always). Kim Stanley Robinson