"America is not a country which needs to demand conformity of all its people, for its strength lies in all our diversities converging in one common belief, that of the importance of freedom as the essence of our country".
Demand conformity and uniformity.
"You want conformity in your bird.
That need for conformity was one reason that left-handers used to be forced, often quite brutally, to write with their right hands.
The findings showed moderate barriers related to self-confidence and risk taking, need for conformity, use of systematic analysis, use of abstract, task achievement and physical environment.
Professor Goldman says the origins of the Chinese emphasis on apologies lies in the Confucian value system, which stressed the need for "conformity to the views of the patriarchal father, and then to the emperor".
Bhindranwale, like other fundamentalists, stressed the need for conformity to a sacred text (the Adi Granth) and for the creation of a Sikh state governed according to sacred law.
The German motive was undeniably the establishment of a reserve of securities, if not for the satisfaction of the individual desire, then for the satisfaction of a collective need in conformity with the myth of the "Greater Germany". This reserve of securities would have a triple advantage: A cultural advantage, that is, the advantage of the Hohe Schule.
A modern author recognizes the tensions that exist in medieval ethical theory when he writes of Thomas Aquinas: 'How is it that Aquinas can seem so Aristotelian in his description of human action and yet be so Augustinian in his insistence on the need for conformity to the eternal law?' (Westberg, 34).
Costa Mesa doesn't need lockstep conformity on its council; we need reasoned debate and willingness to consider multiple viewpoints.
