Quotes About Conformity

In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.

Normal doesn't feel so normal to me, I tell him. It's normal to feel that way, he replies.

Putting both your hands in your pockets was against the rules. So was 'running in the corridors'. However, fagging – acting as an older boy's unpaid servant – and beating were still permitted. Corporal punishment could be administered by the housemaster or even by the boy named as Head of House.

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just dolled up on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity.

if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

we live in an age in which we are urged to define ourselves more and more narrowly, to crush our own multidimensionality into the straitjacket of a one-dimensional national, ethnic, tribal, or religious identity. This, I have come to think, may be the evil from which flow all the other evils of our time.

The sheer magnitude and sameness of mass-produced and mass-marketed goods that Americans have grown to expect can be really disorienting.

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

In the United States, the majority takes upon itself the task of supplying to the individual a mass of ready-made opinions, thus relieving him of the necessity to take the proper responsibility of arriving at his own.

Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.

An individual so different from all the others, so independent, so favored, destroys or weakens the rule of law.

Variety is disappearing from the human race; the same ways of acting, thinking, and feeling are to be met with all over the world.

I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.

eÄŸer bir adam?n topluma kar?? gelecek yeteneÄŸi ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalaman?n üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha deÄŸerli bir hale dönüÅŸtürürsünüz, kazand?r?rs?n?z. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmay? yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kal?r.

A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.