Quotes About Conformity

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside. To experience complete freedom in seeking his purposes he would have to be alone, and that's impossible, since a person who isn't brought up among people cannot become a person.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are being transformed into the very image of Christ. Whether we feel like it or not.

Nessuna setta è tanto stupida o sanguinaria da non poter trovare un seguito. [...] E quella degli Apparentemente Normali è la più temibile.

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

I hate you. I love you. You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have. I'm trying not to be.

Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker,...

I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.

Everyone is comparing everyone with everyone.

Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking 'why?' all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

Maybe he didn't encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him thinking different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective. Political correctness is always obsessed with how right it is without thinking how effective it might be. I do relish transgression and I deeply and instinctively distrust conformity and orthodoxy.

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off.

If you look like you belong in a place, most people think you do.

There aren't just 2 kinds of people, good and bad, like I thought when I was a kid who got most of his ideas on how people act from TV. There are 3. The third type of people go along to get along, like Deputy F.W.S. Malkin told me to do. Those are the most people in the world and I think they are gray people. They will not hurt you (at least on purpose) but they won't help you much, either. They will say do what you want and God help you.

Sometimes it's just easier to go along.

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.