Quotes About Conformity

Empecé a comprender que el mundo al que estaba acostumbrado había embotado mi creatividad y limitado mi visión del mundo.

Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.… His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness." —from Demian by Hermann Hesse

Tu tiempo es limitado, no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de alguien distinto. No te quedes atrapado en el dogma, eso es vivir como otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más importante, ten el coraje para seguir a tu corazón y tu intuición. Ellos ya saben de algún modo en qué quieres convertirte realmente.

I'd rather get confused, bruised a bit (or a lot) and know that I'm living fully than spend my greatest years watching television in a subdivision or buying things I don't need to impress people I don't know in a store I don't really want to be

You can fit in. Or you can change the world. You don't get to do both.

I began to realize that the sterile world I had grown accustomed to had dulled my creativity and limited my vision

I don't believe in Our Dark Lord of the Underworld or the rising of the Antichrist, I don't believe in child sacrifice or wild midnight blood rituals, and I don't believe that I can call on the power of Satan to knock some cheerleader off her pyramid. Wearing black felt safe. Wearing it on my skin, the mark of something vicious, that felt right.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Orgasmic realizations will always be frowned upon by those who feel they have to keep up appearances.

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.

Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many subjects repressed, refracted, blinded as to their true sexuality, because they are unwilling to let go of a stereotype.

To be jealous is to conform...To reject jealousy is to transgress a law.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

By the time of "A Full Vindication," Hamilton had clearly assumed the coloring of his environment.

Rockefeller generally conformed to the requisite style, but his family constantly had to remind him to buy a new suit when his current one got too shiny.

Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.

Darwinists say they're under some sort of epistemological obligation to continue trying, because to invoke design would be to give up on science. Well, I say it's time to redefine science. We should not be looking for only the best naturalistic explanation, but the best explanation, period. And intelligent design is the explanation that's most in conformity with how the world works.

Parades always made me cringe—the sight of so many people lockstepping along, chests out, elbows pumping, seemed to denote an unearned pride or a humiliating need for attention. I have generally found something else to do, if any parades were nearby.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. [...] You must be, or you wouldn't be here.

Pero no quiero andar entre locos", protestó Alicia.               "Oh, no puedes evitarlo", dijo el Gato: "todos estamos locos por aquí. Yo estoy loco. Tú estás loca".

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise..