Quotes About Conformity

Rufus tells his patients when they come to him feeling deeply depressed or anxious: You're not crazy to feel so distressed. You're not broken. You're not defective. He sometimes quotes the Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity