Quotes About Conformity

The power of groups is that they validate the common interests of their members. The danger of groupthink is that it dulls their individual judgment. The group thinks in unison and behaves en masse.

If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

As you worry less about going through conflict and focus more on growing through conflict, you will enhance that process and experience the incomparable blessing of being conformed to the likeness of Christ.

What I hate most is the majority that rests in comfort upon its mediocre accomplishments.

Growing up, women were not the mystery—I knew how they worked, or thought I did. Men were the mystery, obscure in their violences and their lusts and their ability to catch. Yet for many years I didn't try to conform to "straight-acting" norms. I didn't think I could—and perhaps achieved an integrity in that surrender. Ironically,

That's the problem with civilization. Folks think someone else got to make up their rituals for 'em.

Puritanism—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken (1949)

A volte è meglio non essere quello che siamo davvero. Non ci fa bene. E alla gente non piace. Bisogna cambiare. Bisogna sforzarsi, e fare respiri profondi, e forse un giorno prendere pillole e imparare trucchi per far finta di essere più come le altre persone. Quelle normali. Ma forse Vanessa aveva ragione, e anche quelle persone, tutte quante, erano guaste a modo loro. Forse passiamo tutti quanti troppo tempo a fingere che non lo siamo.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Every once in a while I would have to go to a powwow and put on some feathers so you could believe I was a real Indian. But other than that you would think I was smarter and more important if I lived in a big house and owned lots of things. That's just the way white people are. It's the way you are trained.

supunerea fata de legamantul de a crede numai probabilul, mediocrul, banalul si ceea ce este sarac in semnificatii, de a renunta la tot ce e strain si insemnat si de a reduce la obisnuit tot ce e neobisnuit. Existau doar... orizonturi de o ingustime apasatoare si pustiul nesfarsit al rutinei.

Sólo un loco podía renunciar a un status quo imaginario. Sólo un loco podía adoptar lo real de la realidad.

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

To be "normal" is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.

in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

the psychological effect of the statistical world picture: it displaces the individual in favor of anonymous units that pile up into mass formations.

To think otherwise than our contemporaries think is somehow illegitimate and disturbing; it is even indecent, morbid or blasphemous, and therefore socially dangerous for the individual. He is stupidly swimming against the social current.

in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes – it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator. A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one.

Os homens são tão necessariamente loucos que não ser louco seria uma outra forma de loucura.