Quotes About Conformity

Further, we are so responsive to our environments that we can be somewhat like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in.

Think about the impact on you of not being ideal for your culture. It has to affect you—not only how others have treated you but also how you have come to treat yourself.

It is not surprising that many sensitive adolescents meet the crisis by destroying their budding self so they will not have to watch it fail to bloom "right." And there are plenty of ways to self-destruct: marrying or having a baby in a way that imprisons one in a narrow, prescribed role; abusing drugs or alcohol; becoming physically or mentally incapacitated; joining a cult or organization that offers security and answers; or suicide.

shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.

How difficult it is to find one's way , how difficult it is not to violate any of the incredibly detailed male regulations.

Ich kam mir verrückt vor, leichtsinnig, aber ich war froh darüber. Ein Teil von mir war es leid, immer die Vernünftige zu spielen.

Suntem obligaÈ›i s? facem atâtea lucruri stupide înc? de mici crezând c? sunt esenÈ›iale.

Eve can't, doesn't know how, doesn't have the material to be Eve outside of Adam. Her evil and her good are evil and good according to Adam. Eve is Adam as a woman. And the divine work was so successful that she herself, in herself, doesn't know what she is, she has pliable features, she doesn't possess her own language, she doesn't have a spirit or logic of her own, she loses her shape easily.

Quant à mes professeurs, ils semblaient avoir décidé d'emblée que j'étais une excellente élève par une sorte d'inertie inhérente à l'ensemble de ce système scolaire poussiéreux.

Fiz uma pausa, depois continuei: talvez haja algo errado nessa vontade dos homens de nos instruir; na época eu era uma menina e não percebia que, naquele seu desejo de me transformar, estava a prova de que não gostava de mim tal como eu era, queria que eu fosse outra, ou melhor, não desejava simplesmente uma mulher, mas uma mulher como ele imaginava que poderia ser se tivesse nascido mulher.

She was submissive, she gave in immediately out of fear of not being liked, it depressed her that she had given in.

Por trás de toda disciplina está o pau, e quando o pau se sente impotente, recorre ao porrete, à polícia, às prisões, ao exército, aos campos de concentração; e se você não se submete, se ao contrário continua questionando tudo, vem o massacre.

Eu me considerava horrível e queria ser cada vez mais horrível. Já havia um tempo que, antes de ir para a escola, eu me empenhava diante do espelho para me vestir e me pentear como uma louca. Queria que as pessoas ficassem de má vontade do meu lado, exatamente como eu tentava mostrar que me sentia na companhia delas.

After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority.

Der Herdeninstinkt schätzt ja überhaupt das Mittlere hoch ein. Er preist es als wertvoll. Sie glauben, sie seien stark, weil sie die Mehrheit bilden. In der mittleren Schicht gibt es keinen Schrecken, keine Furcht. Aneinanderdrängen sie sich um der Illusion von Wärme willen. Mit nichts ist man im Mittleren allein, mit sich selbst schon gar nicht.

Der Künstler geht dem bitteren Schenkeldruck der Wahrheit wie dem der Regel gern aus dem Weg.

Bio je to izbor od kojega ju je majka odmah pokušala odvratiti. Majka je znala da njeno dijete takvom vrstom glazbe ne?e uspjeti osvojiti srca mase, koju su i majka i dijete oduvijek prezirale, ona prva zato što je oduvijek bila malen, bezna?ajan dio te mase, a potonja jer se od po?etka trudila da ne postane takav mali, bezna?ajni dio.

Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.