Quotes About Conformity

En muchos casos, llamarle a uno bueno no indica más que docilidad, tendencia a no llevar la contraria y a no causar problemas.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

In the name of social order, liberal thought, and sometimes even Christianity, the novelist is asked to be the handmaid of his age.

The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak.

Ah! sempre la stessa musica![...] Sempre i doveri: ecco una parola che mi toglie il fiato. Un mucchio di vecchi stupidi in panciotto di flanella e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario che continuano a cantarci negli orecchi: Il dovere! Il dovere! Eh, maledizione, il dovere è sentire quello che è veramente grande, il dovere è amare quello che è veramente bello, il dovere è non accettare tutte le convenienze sociali, con il cumulo di ignominie che ci impongono.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don't think I would have had a problem adapting to England.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Sometimes I feel like you have to be a different person - you kind of morph into that person that fits in.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

When I moved to L.A., I had somebody go, 'Alright. Fix your hair. Wear this.' Like, changed my look a little bit. I kind of came into myself a little better when I moved to L.A.