Quotes About Conformity

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

They were all outraged," Grella said. "And then they fell into line

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone

Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading level of conformity in virtually every facet of our lives?

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

We like to imagine our identities are fixed, while in reality so many adjust like chameleons to fit the circumstances around them. We tend to develop based on how we are nurtured and go where we are directed. -Humbuggle

In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren't like "everyone else," and after a while Tress figured that the group "everyone else" must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.

The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.

Gelenek, bizi mahkum etmek için kulland?klar? kör tan?k, yalanlar?n? paketlemek için kulland?klar? cicili kutu. Gelenek, bizi onlara hizmet ettiriyor.

You don't believe that though," FM said. "Why not, if that's what you were taught?" "Do you believe everything you're told?" I asked. "No," FM said. "But it's hard for most people to ignore the dominant messaging sometimes, especially when no one is willing to speak against it." "Oh

Remember, obedience is defiance.

An awed voice in the back of his mind whispered, They're all the same. Metal, minds, men, all the same substance.…

We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours.

Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other—it's trying to simultaneously fit in and stand out. Comparison says, "Be like everyone else, but better.

If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, I fit in.

Until both men and women are allowed to be who we are rather than who we are supposed to be, it will be impossible to achieve freedom and equality.

Until we teach our children that they need to be concerned with how they look and with what other people think, they dance.

In a US study on conformity to feminine norms, researchers recently listed the most important attributes associated with "being feminine" as being nice, pursuing a thin body ideal, showing modesty by not calling attention to one's talents or abilities, being domestic, caring for children, investing in a romantic relationship, keeping sexual intimacy contained within one committed relationship, and using our resources to invest in our appearance.

You can't ever do anything brave if you're wearing the straitjacket of 'What will people think?!

When all that binds us is what we believe rather than who we are, changing our mind or challenging the collective ideology is risky.

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Shame forces us to put so much value on what other people think that we lose ourselves in the process of trying to meet everyone else's expectations. Shame: