Quotes About Conformity

I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

The gymnastics community is toxic. You just do what they say no matter what. It's really scary.

I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.