Quotes About Conformity

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

In high school, Karen and Sarah had done everything to their hair they could think of except take care of it. They had bleached it, shaved it, permed it, dyed it, as girls do when vandalizing themselves seems the best way of proving their bodies were theirs.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it.

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.