Quotes About Conformity

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'.

To say that, "I will not agree (will not accept)" is great egoism!

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

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 opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.

From discord, find Harmony.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.

Pour être un membre irréprochable parmi une communauté de moutons, Il faut avant toute chose être soi-même un mouton.

Peu d'être sont capables d'exprimer posément une opinion différente des préjugés de leur milieu. La plupart des êtres sont même incapables d'arriver à formuler une.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

Para ser un miembro irreprochable de un rebaño de ovejas hace falta primero ser oveja.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. I ate civilization.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things.' 'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays.' He laughed, 'Yes, Everybody's happy nowadays. We begin giving children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to e happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness! - From Brave New World

And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king." Mr. Bahu's face was positively twinkling with Voltairean glee. "He gets lynched.

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.