Quotes About Conventionality

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows "conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness" in his conscious thinking and "violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere.… The pseudo-conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition."1 Who is the pseudo-conservative

Why go through that stuff all over again? Don't you know the rule: once bitten, twice bitten? But now, I found myself in revolt against my own … what? Conventionality, lack of imagination

The conventionality of the tribe is far more important than the happiness of the individual. In fact, the happiness of the individual ideally should rest in perpetrating the conventionality of the tribe.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily. Why

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

When two human beings are united by pleasure, all social conventionalities are put aside. This situation conceals a reef on which many vessels are wrecked. A husband is lost, if he once forgets there is a modesty which is quite independent of coverings. Conjugal love ought never either to put on or to take away the bandage of its eyes, excepting at the due season.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Popular authors do not and apparently cannot appreciate the fact that true art is obtainable only by rejecting normality and conventionality in toto, and approaching a theme purged utterly of any usual or preconceived point of view.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Siempre es difícil responder a eso, porque lleva implícita la pregunta de por qué no lo he hecho ya. Pero diría que cuando miro hacia mi yo más joven del pasado, era increíblemente convencional, increíblemente competitivo. Y, cuando eres muy competitivo, te vuelves muy bueno en aquello en lo que compites contra otras personas. Pero lo haces a cambio de perderte muchas otras cosas. »Si eres un jugador de ajedrez

Clusters of items in the scale point to the following tendencies associated with social responsibility: greater concern for social and moral issues; disapproval of privilege and favor; emphasis on duties and self-discipline; greater conventionality; less rebelliousness; greater sense of trust and confidence in the world; greater poise, assurance, and personal security.

What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

I ako ti u ovaj tren ne progovoriš, ako ne progovoriš neposredno, neposredno, iskreno, ja ?u od te tvoje konvencionalnosti poludjeti ovdje, na ovome mjestu!