Quotes About Conformity

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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

Suicide was a crime. It was "alienating oneself from the people," according to what Chairman Mao said. So

It's amazing how quickly you start following the rules when someone sticks a cranial explosive to the base of your skull.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

Maybe I wanted to be crazy so I wouldn't have to go through the normal rationalizations and self-justifications of unfettered indulgence.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.

We are tampered with, our opinions manufactured for us, all without our permission. What was the purpose of these behavior modifications? It was to bring about forced changes to our way of life, without our agreement and without even being aware of what was taking place.