Quotes About Conformity

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When man is not permitted to be himself, he cannot be encountered.

Anyway, how could therapy even work on me, when I was so far from sharing Svetlana's therapist-like belief that people should be healthy and well-adjusted, that they should go to bed at the same time every night, even if they were reading or having an interesting conversation, or that it was great and life-affirming to go hiking with some guy, or to get married? Of course therapy worked for someone who believed those things.

But it is often easier to compel a hundred people to do what you could never compel one person to do. The lone man must consult his conscience, that stern and unflattering arbiter. A man in a crowd, though, can turn to the others, as the others turn to one another, each justifying the deed by referring to the next man, or to the force of all the men together. This

Because I didn't have a decent jacket. Because I thought it was better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

To be normal', he said, 'is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful" ~ Carl Gustav Jung (1987-1961) as cited in Anthony Stevens

Through the persona we codify ourselves in a form which we hope will prove acceptable to others.

Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of collective conformity.

Bueno, es una lastima ¿no?, que no puedas hacer cosas que disfrutarías sólo porque tienes que ser rebelde.

Da rabia cuando te construyen caminos, lo único que consiguen es que quieras rebelarte contra ellos, ¿verdad?

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

A person who is actually living own life will find it better to be treated like a PENGUIN who is a living being rather than being greeted or remembered by the people for looking like a MANNEQUIN that is only non-living thing.

A person who isn't dumb & duff or doesn't dupe & bluff will find it hard & tough to gel in and go along with the people.

Asses are first to strictly follow the rules made by wolves

People who move often like a herd in life can never be made to understand even a single, really, wisdom word of a truly learned person.

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself.

There is so much drama in most people's lives that many persons, more often than not, do not even realize it; and one who is not like them will always have a tough time in going along with the others.

Too many people are so much fool/fake that if a person does not make out to be one of them, then he will look often odd to them and even may be called a half-crack by many out of those foolish/pretentious pack

Let to your own devices, you'd show up for the wedding in overalls," he said. "But they'd be white ones.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.