Quotes About Conformity

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me.

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

Two teenage boys have tattoos on their necks, instantly halving the alienation they'd hoped to achieve.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Habit is a great deadener.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Mrs Strange insisted that the entire class slant their lined paper to the left at a 45-degree angle so that our script lurched away from the centre as if keen to escape. They say your handwriting says a lot about you. I think mine says a lot about Mrs Strange.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Para un niño, sentirse diferente a los demás es una de las experiencias más duras. Ser el raro, el tonto, el advenedizo, son situaciones que te predisponen contra tu entorno. Si el mundo te acoge con naturalidad y afecto, te sientes más dispuesto a seguir las normas convencionales. De lo contrario, es más posible que desarrolles la tendencia a huir de él. O a volarlo en pedazos.

Sexual harassment works—as does bullying more generally—by increasing the costs of fighting against something, making it easier to accept something than to struggle against something

In the end few people are strong enough to reject what society expects of them.

A new car in every driveway. Every house had a little lawn out front, and every blade of grass on each lawn was trimmed down to the exact same height. Some of the ladies had flower beds and even the flowers all looked alike, something small and pink. There wasn't a person out on the streets, which made sense seeing as there were no sidewalks—the lawns came all the way out to the road. It gave me the creeps. Each

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

It was the kind of herd mentality that was so prevalent in this world - when one person was doing something that looked amazing in photos, the community followed suit, even if it meant completely uprooting one's life.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not punk, not hipster, not skank, not prude, just a half-assed band geek -- no one can believe I'd do anything so well defined as lie. I like my new superpower.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.