Quotes About Conformity

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Ce que je veux paraître je le parais, belle aussi si c'est ce que l'on veut que je sois, belle, ou jolie, jolie par exemple pour la famille, pour la famille, pas plus, tout ce que l'on veut de moi je peux le devenir »

Sono come voglio apparire, anche bella se gli altri lo vogliono, o carina, carina diciamo per i familiari, per loro e basta, insomma posso diventare come gli altri vogliono che sia. E credici. Anche credere che sono affascinante. Dal momento che lo credo, so anche farlo diventare vero agli occhi di chi mi vede e desidera che io sia di suo gusto.

Puedo convertirme en lo que quieran que sea. Y creerlo. Creer, además, que soy encantadora. En cuanto lo creo, se convierte en realidad para quienes me ven y desean que sea de una manera acorde con sus gustos, también lo sé.

20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.

We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.