Quotes About Conformity

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.