Quotes About Conformity

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state

Para el que posee ese reino desconocido de la luz, estas galerías deben de ser tristes; pero yo, que vivo en tinieblas, hallo aquí cierta conformidad de la tierra con mi propio ser.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

like any outsider, you cope, you try to copy to belong, you overcompensate for what you think you hear is the norm.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

When I left for Milford I was in the 10th grade and had never read a book from cover to cover. From the fifth grade on I felt if you studied intently something was wrong. The coolest kid in class was regarded as the leader and you fell in behind him or you were frowned upon... and whatever else that entailed.

Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

You couldn't have too many dreams because in the Communist regime, everything was cookie-cutter.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

The thing about innovation is, where do you stop? There are movements across the world where people are asking restaurateurs to bring back the regular plate. So, yes, we are fed up of drinking out of shoes and eating out of hats.

During the years I was growing up, I was trying very hard to be a regular person.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.