Quotes About Conformity

Watch out.' 'For what?' said Pollux. 'For when that uniform starts to wear you

Once in a while I encounter that oblivion in the form of an unreal me. This unreal me is paralyzed by one bottomless thought: I didn't choose this format. I didn't choose to be organized into a Tookie. What, or who, made that happen? Why? What will happen if I do not accept this outrage? It isn't easy to stay organized in this shape. I can feel what it would be like to stop making the effort.

No, you have to look like everyone else, then you'll get by and no one will suspect you.

Wat het leven in feite zo dodelijk vermoeiend maakt is misschien wel de geweldige inspanning die we op moeten brengen om twintig, veertig jaar en nog wel langer redelijk te blijven, om niet gewoon volkomen jezelf te zijn, dat wil zeggen abject, wreed en absurd.

Wat het leven in feite zo dodelijk vermoeiend maakt is misschien de geweldige inspanning die we op moeten brengen om twintig, veertig jaar en nog wel langer redelijk te blijven, om niet gewoon volkomen jezelf te zijn, dat wil zeggen abject, wreed en absurd. 't Is een nachtmerrie als jij, strompelende stumperd die je in werkelijkheid bent, van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat maar steeds de superman moet spelen, wat ergens toch wel het ideaal van deze wereld is.

allemaal hetzelfde, waar je ook komt! welk regime ook, welke filosofie, sekte, kleur!... elk excuus is goed!... ze stormen toe, in zwermen! en dan is't te laat!... dan vreten ze je op!

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Nell found adults to be constrained. It was as if sometime during their late youth, someone had drawn a box for them to step into. The box had four sides, a bottom, and a top; the adult would hop in—willingly, it seemed—and never get out again.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say? Ah, there's the rub, sighed Anne. There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!

But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Won't you try to remember you're a lady? she pleaded. Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it

In order to make an error, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.

Quanti conservano la beata regolarità delle esperienze non possono immaginare quali cose possono essere reali o verosimili per chi viva fuori d'ogni regola, come appunto quell'uomo lí.

By not participating in the machine, the individual becomes a fool and an outcast. Great pressures of conformity will mount up from all sides for anyone who begins to flounder about in the throes of awakening.

Maybonne said Just because someone has lace-up hip huggers does not mean they can control the world. Then Magreet let her wear those pants. When my aunt saw them on her she shouted Are you trying to kill me?!

Have you never done anything dangerous, my lady?" "I've kept library books past their due dates," she said defensively. "I've walked on the wild side.

necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.

She never let me be me. She made me in her image. She made me, made me, made me. She never let any of me be me.

The highest forms of love are inevitably totally free choices and not acts of conformity.

A vida é cheia de obrigações que a gente cumpre, por mais vontade que tenha de as infringir

La vita è piena di obblighi che si adempiono, per quanta voglia si abbia di trasgredirli sfacciatamente.

Saí triste. Procurava um homem original e achei um maluco. Os de juízo são todos copiados uns dos outros. Consta-me até que aquele mesmo homem de Plutarco, freguês do Carceller, curado por um hábil médico, está agora tão comum como os outros. Acabou a originalidade com a maluquice.