Quotes About Conformity

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

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

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

I'm well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life.

You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you, whoever everyone is...

Unfortunately, our society is a victim of such a world system which does not encourage people to live consciously and become who they were called to be

Comfort is the enemy of Liberty

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.

Learned and sociological accepted lines, boundaries, internal perimeters, and partitions diminish the creative space within our minds that's poised and ready.

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)