Quotes About Conformity

The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Most Quakers stayed true, many deviated, and all felt pressure from opposing directions: the Revolution demanded they join, their Meetings insisted they not.

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.

I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

When everyone decides that they have to be a certain way, that there's one way to be a man and one way to be a woman, that's when we go down the wrong path.

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.