Quotes About Conformity

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

among this pool are these: (a) explanatory power, (b) explanatory scope, (c) plausibility, (d) degree of ad hoc-ness and (e) conformity with other beliefs. The more explanatory power and scope and the more plausibility and conformity with other beliefs an explanation has, the better it is. The less ad hoc (adjusted, contrived, artificial) the explanation, the better as well. The trick is to subject all explanation options to these

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

Almost all had ill-grown mustaches and sported pinkish sun-bleached sandals meant for some nonexistent third gender, along with buzz haircuts that spoke of either nationalism or retardation.

Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in, but I don't want you to let them lock you in.

a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior.

En todos los conciertos clásicos que se dan en Inglaterra verás filas de gente cansada que están allí, no porque realmente les guste la música clásica, sino porque creen que deben estar. Pues bien, lo mismo pasa en el cielo. Hay muchos que están sentados en la gloria, no porque sean felices, sino porque creen que su posición les obliga a estar en el cielo.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

Personally I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat, or you can't wear a hat.

They give you a colouring book and some crayons, and tell you, be creative...but don't go outside the lines.

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.

College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.