Quotes About Conformity

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be—we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be -- we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth.

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You

But that's exactly what we have on Camazotz. Complete equality. Everybody exactly alike. For a moment her brain reeled with confusion. Then came a moment of blazing truth. No! she cried triumphantly. Like and equal are not the same thing at all!...Like and equal are two entirely different things.

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Break the rules not because you don't know better, but because you know them too well

Those who have little in the way of character do all they can to blend into crowds, as those with Integrity stand alone in Success

Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.

The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others.

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.