Quotes About Conformity

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

I go through the motions of living in society