Quotes About Conformity

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine

We spend so long trying to be what other people want, that when we look in the mirror, we see a stranger.

How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?

I knew in that moment that I was full of it. I didn't know who I was. I only knew my routine. I knew who I was suppose to be, who I was expected to be.

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all. There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be.

ARE THESE PEOPLE SUCH FOOLS THAT THEY CAN'T COPE WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T DRESS LIKE THEM? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE SO CLEARLY NOT? DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF 'THOSE' WOMEN?

Perché questo vuol dire crescere in una piccola città: tutti pensano di sapere chi sei. Nell era la ragazza giudiziosa. La ragazza tranquilla. Quella che pianificava attentamente ogni dettaglio e a cui potevi dare l'incarico di innaffiare le piante o badare ai tuoi figli con la sicurezza che non sarebbe scappata con tuo marito né con quello di nessun'altra.

She thinks about the ways in which she has been expected to conform to some ideal that takes endless, endless effort just to stay married: keep your figure, create a perfect home environment, be interesting, have great hair every day (but none anywhere else), wear shoes that make your feet hurt, lacy underwear that cuts your hoo-ha in two, make sure your bedroom antics are porn-star level (even if your husband seems to think the act of getting a hard-on should be enough for his side).

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.

Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.

Men expected women to be calm, collected, cooperative, and chaste. Eccentric conduct was frowned upon, and any female who got too far out of line could be in serious trouble. Virginia Culin Roberts, 'The Women Was Too Tough

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.

We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves.

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.

Los grupos cohesionados y moralmente homogéneos son propensos a las cazas de brujas, en particular cuando experimentan una amenaza, sea externa o interna.

sovereign power [or soft despot] extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules . . . it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America1