Quotes About Conformity

Honoria sighed. "We can't do what we did last year." "I don't see why not," Sarah said. "I can't imagine anyone would recognize it from our interpretation

Some people broke rules. Others merely wished to.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

We're in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They'd rather have you look like every other cookie cutter guy and have you believe that you're replaceable when you're really not.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.'

There's a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, have enough Instagram followers.

How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to which this becomes the ultimate focus of everything, where you have people who won't go to school unless they've put their make-up on, or won't leave the house unless they've spent two hours getting ready.

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

That always seemed like the whole thing; they'll let you have stories, but you can't ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it's one of the charms of the place. Certain things don't have to be thought about carefully because you're always being pushed from behind. It's like a tunnel where there's no sky.

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.

Ogni mattina con la precisione delle sei ruote alla stessa ora e allo stesso minuto, noi, milioni, ci alziamo come un essere solo. Alla stessa unica ora, milioni in uno cominciamo il lavoro e milioni in uno lo terminiamo [...].

gli uomini vivevano in stato di libertà, cioè nello stato degli animali, delle scimmie, del bestiame?

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

In un paese dove ognuno poteva essere felice, volere diversamente era una trasgressione, agire diversamente un delitto.