Quotes About Conformity

Nobody's killing any cats." Miss Lillian glowered. "It's what we've always done." "Yeah, well, I'm changing how things are done." Miss Lillian started to protest, but Miss Addie cut her off. "Very well. We could stand to change.

The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention.

Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

They will drink their tea. Weight their words. Wear hats against the sun. squeeze their minds into corsets, lest some errant thought should escape and ruin the smooth illusion they hold of themselves and the world as they like it.

For half a second, I consider staying. Maybe I could find that bliss state again. Maybe I could stay here, follow all the rules, be safe always. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that , it burps.

God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.

Life would be only what they chose to make it, grappling within the straitjacket of society

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.