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Quotes About Conformity

Sueños sin proyectos producen personas frustradas, siervas del sistema.
~ Augusto Cury
Visurile nu construiesc victorii, dar ne scot din conformism, nu ne fac eroi, dar ne transforma in fiinte esentialmente umane.
~ Augusto Cury
Entendemos que escribir es un acto pecaminoso, al principio contra los grandes modelos, enseguida contra nuestros padres, y pronto, indefectiblemente, contra las autoridades.
~ Augusto Monterroso
Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.
~ Austin Grossman
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect
~ Averroes
Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The more furious he became at the perverse machinery of the military, the more his belt buckle gleamed, as if to prove that it wasn't he who was unfit for the service but the service that was unfit for him. When
~ Ayelet Waldman
Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.
~ B. A Santamaria
it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.
~ B. Traven
Question tradition. Who says you have to keep your vitamins in the kitchen or floss in the bathroom? Maybe your vitamins need to be next to your computer. Or maybe flossing works best when you keep floss next to your TV remote
~ B.J. Fogg
The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!
~ Babette Cole
So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
~ Gillian Armstrong
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
~ R. D. Laing
I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
~ Richard O'Brien
As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.
~ Andreja Pejic
It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.
~ Gilbert Hernandez
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.
~ Angela Ahrendts
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.
~ Sophia Amoruso
I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.
~ Mila Kunis
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
~ James McAvoy
Whenever I put on a colored thing, I feel like I'm in a costume. Like when I put on a gray shirt.
~ Justin Theroux
School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.
~ Boy George