Quotes About Conformity

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them.

The truth is that while it appears to be forming the public opinion on fundamental matters, the press is often conforming to it.

To a large degree the press, the schools, the churches, motion pictures, advertising, the lecture platform and radio all conform to the demands of the public. But to an equally large degree the public responds to the influence of these very same mediums of communication.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

People afterward told him that it had taken courage to say what he thought. Not at all, he responded; it takes courage in the Soviet Union or in South Africa to say what one thinks, not in the United States.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Experiences had taught me to beware of buying a stock that refuses to follow the group-leader.

The question displays not that, how multifarious readers, read whatever writings, rules, laws, and even resolutions; however, it infiltrates it, how numerous readers understand that in its precise context and follow and apply?

We make it especially hard for others to observe our trait because we are so responsive to our environments that we can be something like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in. I

Others knew they were different, but hid it and adapted, acting like the non-sensitive majority.