Quotes About Conformity

Progressives have finally convinced everyone to think alike, but without joy, satisfaction, or social harmony in return — just self-righteousness and misery.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

alters/annihilates all pretensions of individual

Is dat niet uiteindelijk de enige opdracht van de mens? Je moet worden wat de anderen in je wensen te zien.

Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him.

In my neighborhood if you had a nice car, you know what they said about it? You didn't pay for it. If you wore your clothes a certain way, they questioned your sexuality. If you was smart in school they called you a nerd. If you had a disability, they highlighted it. There's no praise. There's only criticism.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

Bollywood goes through these phases. Whatever makes money is quickly lapped up by all. They all want to play safe.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.

I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?