Quotes About Conformity

Muchos nacen; pocos viven. Los hombres sin personalidad son innumerables y vegetan moldeados por el medio, como cera fundida en el cuño social.

La continuidad de la vida social sería posible sin esa compacta masa de hombres puramente imitativos, capaces de conservar los hábitos rutinarios que la sociedad les transfunde mediante la educación?

El mediocre no inventa nada, no crea, no empuja, no rompe, no engendra; pero, en cambio, custodia celosamente la armazón de automatismos, prejuicios y dogmas acumulados durante siglos, defendiendo ese capital común contra la asechanza de los inadaptables.

Creer en el primer catecismo que se nos enseña o se nos impone, es renunciar a nuestra personalidad.

El hombre mediocre es una sombra proyectada por la sociedad; es por esencia imitativo y está perfectamente adaptado para vivir en rebaño, reflejando las rutinas, prejuicios y dogmatismos reconocidamente útiles para la domesticidad.

Su característica es imitar a cuantos le rodean: pensar con cabeza ajena y ser incapaz de formarse ideales propios.

Individualmente considerada, la mediocridad podrá definirse como una ausencia de características personales que permitan distinguir al individuo en su sociedad. Ésta

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything 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.

The wisdom lay in this–that here she must remain Manchu, Chinese; any attempt to become a part of this incomprehensible country, any effort to involve herself in its mysterious acts or thought, would be disastrous. She must remain calm, unassertive, let the eternal Tao take its way.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Elevators are brilliant. I'm going to stand here a little longer. The good thing about riding in an elevator as a grown-up is that nobody questions my being in the elevator. Nobody suspects me of just riding the elevator. I look like I'm one of the others.

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock; characters who still know what freedom is. This is a ruler's worst nightmare.

It is infinitely more appealing to be a criminal than a bourgeois.

Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.

It's the same affect of your mom putting on one of those flesh tone Band-Aids when you really wanted a hello Kitty one. It did the job, but that was about it

Don't try to pound them into your framework like square pegs into round holes.

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —KRISHNAMURTI

I've always been suspicious of collective truths".

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.