Quotes About Conformity

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

All of us struggle to live up to the image that's drawn for us. Perfect body, perfect skin, perfect house - we are put in a frame with a picture that 'others' decide for us. If we work to live up to just that, when will we do what we like?

Most fellows learned something about dressing in college. But my fraternity made me stay in the basement whenever we gave a dance.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf.

It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you

CzÅ'owiek nie musi ?y? wÅ›ród mÄ™tów spoÅ'eczeÅ"stwa, aby nie usÅ'ysze? nic o mÄ™tach towarzystwa.

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!

The Pi Betas had accepted the fact that Rose was Mexican, but it was obvious they would just as soon ignore it. And they seemed to assume Rose wanted to do that, too. The other girls might not be overtly disturbed by the fact that Rose was a chicana, but they certainly were not going to encourage her to explore her heritage. No, if Rose joined the Pi Betas, she would have to deny the biggest part of herself. She would have to become completely American.

Literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there are none.

Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?

Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.

Should is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.