Quotes About Conformity

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life.

When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Non poté fare altro, naturalmente, che incorniciare le sue frasi in quel modo vuoto e stantio di cui ormai era schiavo. Qualsiasi cosa si provi, nel cuore o nello stomaco, le vecchie abitudini restano radicate. Parole e gesti rispondono a leggi dittatoriali, senza fantasia; un rito spettrale, che nega lo spirito.

It's just that when you're playing in standard tuning all the time," Moore explained, "you're sounding pretty… standard.

I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.

Punk in small towns in '88, '89 was just too dangerous to the normal way of doing things," Lunsford explains. "We found out how many walls there were in this free society that were blocking self-entertainment.

Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool.

I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence.

What I came to dislike about Little League that spring was not the regulation per se, or the fathers--whose consciousness had generally been raised at least a little bit--or the tedium, or the low quality of play, or the pain of watching my son strike out a lot. It was the way I got reminded, every game, that this was the world my children lived in: the world in which the wild watershed of childhood had been brought fully under control of the adult Corps of Engineers.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

She's interested in Japanese history right now, so that's what I'm reading to her. And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.

The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.