Quotes About Conformity

This jail is not Burger King- you can't have it your way.

but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

She glanced down at the muffin, as if debating whether to drench it with even more butter. The term Maximum Tolerable Chins popped into Mrs. Watson's head—it had come up the first time they sat down at the table together, the benchmark for whether Miss Holmes ate as she wished or gave in to the lamentable necessity to curb her appetite. With visible regret Miss Holmes set down her butter knife.

every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be. But

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these things he was an outlaw in his community. The community tolerated him. His own sons tolerated him.

We're so deeply conditioned to believe that there's a right or wrong choice that when it comes time to make even minor decisions in life, we're scared of messing up.

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

Einen braucht es, der Parolen ruft, und mit Glück werden ihm andere folgen. Wenn nicht, dann steht man nicht als Anführer einer Revolution auf der Straße, sondern als Geisteskranker. Es ist immer die Angst, der einzige zu sein und nicht zur Gruppe zu gehören, was den Menschen von bleibenden Taten abhält, und wenn es ihm irgendwann egal wird, was die Gruppe von ihm hält, dann wird er zum Amokläufer.

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where everything is planned: I would much rather have liberty to make a fool of myself than become an ideal citizen by regulation. - George Taylor

What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.

We are only showed what is acceptable, as the unacceptable is the truth.

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.

What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan." "I suspect I am a hooligan.

You're not good at following directions, are you?" He grins as if saying, I'm a gang member, what did you expect?

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

It Can't Happen Here.

His name was George F. Babbitt [and]… he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Learning is following