Quotes About Conformity

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

Yo, why can't I speak out and then have fun? Why can't I just be a human? Why can't I just do what I want? People just want to keep you in one type of box or lane.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

We didn't move up here because it was fashionable because, goodness me, it wasn't fashionable. It was too special. Fashionable to me implies conformity, and the Dakota didn't conform to anything in the city at the time.

Antiquity hath, too, too often bewitched the minds of men, and drawn them from the revealed will of God. Men are more willing to imitate the outward actions of their famous ancestors, than conform themselves to the revealed will of their Creator.

Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same.

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.

It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else.

In Polmont, everyone was acting the hard man and giving it the large. I had to fight or cosh or do something to be accepted. I can tell you, it was better to be in a gang than being on your own, and I'd do anything in Polmont, no questions asked!

Paranoia strikes deep,Into your life it will creep.It starts when you're always afraid.Step out of line, the men come and take you away.

carved dolls stick to the rules.

Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway.

I would say that the gospel of the Beatles is not found in their conformity to an orthodox creed, especially the creeds of the Christian churches, but in their hunger for transcendence.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller