Quotes About Conformity

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

Look around the world and you'll find overwhelming evidence of the herd mentality at work.

Yes, it may be money they're after—but just as often they are motivated by wanting to be liked, or not be hated; by wanting to stand out in a crowd, or perhaps not stand out.

But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks.

For if I am interesting to you precisely to the extent that I'm not one of you, then your desire to civilize me, to turn me into a good citizen of Nuremberg, can lead to nothing but loss of interest.

There is a maddening phenomenon of social dynamics variously called pluralistic ignorance, the spiral of silence, and the Abilene paradox, after an anecdote in which a Texan family takes an unpleasant trip to Abilene one hot afternoon because each member thinks the others want to go.274 People may endorse a practice or opinion they deplore because they mistakenly think that everyone else favors it.

En un viejo chiste, un orador callejero se dirige a una multitud hablando sobre las glorias del comunismo: -¡Cuando llegue la revolución, todos comerán fresas con nata!- Desde la parte delantera, un hombre exclama: -Pero ¡a mí no me gustan las fresas con nata!- El orador brama: -¡Cuando llegue la revolución, te gustarán las fresas con nata!

Solzhenitsyn recounted a party conference in Moscow that ended with a tribute to Stalin. Everyone stood and clapped wildly for three minutes, then four, then five . . . and then no one dared to be the first to stop. After eleven minutes of increasingly stinging palms, a factory director on the platform finally sat down, followed by the rest of the grateful assembly. He was arrested that evening and sent to the gulag for ten years.278

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game, internalizing them, and following them.

The individual is molded by the social world. But social institutions are molded, too, by the requirements of the individuals who compose them.

The same thing happens when well-meaning counsellors place a delinquent teen among comparatively civilized peers. The delinquency spreads, not the stability.65 Down is a lot easier than up.

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game,

Eventually Young Vic would have ditched me for someone with a bunch of piercings and an edgy record collection, if I didn't take off with a pseudo-intellectual political activist first.

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.