Quotes About Conformity

Omologarsi equivale a perdere di vista se stessi.

Mi è capitato di vedere gente allinearsi al punto di vista altrui e mantenere segrete le proprie opinioni soltanto in nome di minimi profitti, nessuno vuole assumersi responsabilità, tutti preferiscono starsene nel mezzo, con vigliaccheria, così che le cose appaiono sempre più torbide e alla fine ci si ritrova imprigionati all'interno di una specie di rigida cornice: ho visto questa storia ripetersi all'infinito.

willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to never committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.

È sempre più facile ottenere il perdono che il permesso

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

She was born smart. She's put her brain into neutral ever since, like everyone else in this place.

The cost of the pretense was the loss of the real human texture underneath, but since we all thought that was what was expected of us, that was what we delivered.

I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.

How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.

Joffre was adept at taking advice, and submitted more or less consciously to the reigning doctrinaires of the Operations Bureau. They formed what a French military critic called "a church outside which there was no salvation and which could never pardon those who revealed the falsity of its doctrine.

It is very difficult for a recipient of secret information to believe its validity when it does not conform to his preconceived plans or ideas; he believes what he wants to believe and rejects what does not verify what he already knows, or thinks he knows.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.