Quotes About Conformity

It is easy to get into the flow of the world and just float along in the worldly boat with everybody else. One thing is for sure—no one will be lonely on the broad way. There will always be lots of company because many people are going that way. The

Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.

The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.

We are free to do as we are told.

Love this quotation I just read: "Ciao," the girl said. Fuck you, ciao. Ciao was the way Katherine and her friends said good-bye and it always struck her as a perfect symbol of their attempts to be what they weren't.

After all, we had been programmed in the same system, stuffed like Strasbourg geese with the best that has been known and said in the world during man's long struggle upward from spontaneity to cliché.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

This is the old way of thinking, and most people think first as they have been taught to think; and next, as they see others think.

Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.

The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

The public must be put in its place [...] so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

They are an ordered, more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We

Laddove tutti pensano allo stesso modo, nessuno pensa un gran che

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial.

Premisa liberadora IX. Someterte al "qué dirán" es una forma de esclavitud socialmente aceptada

En consecuencia, el pensamiento rígido que se desprende de ellas será: dogmático (llevado de su parecer), solemne (amargado y circunspecto), normativo (conformista y apegado a las reglas), prejuicioso (odioso y discriminador), simplista (superficial) y autoritario (abusador del poder).

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará de inmaduros o "inestables", como si no cambiar de rumbo fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

Let us leave the labels to those who have little else wherewith to cover their nakedness.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.