Quotes About Conformity

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

She would, in fact, make a quite deplorable duchess.

They've never been the kind of parents who ask if you want to drink your milk from the red glass or the blue glass. They just hand you a glass, and that's that. Milk tastes the same whether the glass is blue or red or purple.

But prettiness is always about pleasing people. When you stop being pretty, you don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore. It's my show now.

I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler's mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds.

So powerful are race- and status-based disgusts that explorers have starved to death rather than eat like the locals. British polar exploration suffered heavily for its mealtime snobbery.

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality,' said H.L. Mencken.

Religions always and everywhere insist upon the argument from authority. You should do this or that because the Pope or the Koran or the local priest says you should. For centuries most of the world convinced itself that the only reason people act morally is because of instruction, that in effect without superstition there can be no ethical behaviour.

When you think about it, it is rather strange that liberated, freethinking people, when their children reach the age of five, send them off to a sort of prison for the next twelve to sixteen years.

Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten.

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.

Instead of broadening the choices of how to look good, we have only broadened the ways we try to look alike. Women are headed toward one face, one body and one expression.