Quotes About Conformity

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

the Nordic concept of janteloven, which meant: Don't think you're so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.

until women shortened their dresses and their hair and stopped wearing corsets, it made no difference if they studied medicine or had the right to vote, because they would not have the strength to do it […]

El individualismo se consideraba una forma de demencia

Don't think you're so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.

In New Zealand, we have a thing called 'tall poppy syndrome,' which, you might not have heard of it, but it's essentially where - it happens in small populations usually, but can actually happen in the U.K. - where, if someone sticks out, they get their head cut off because they are being outside the ordinary or they are showing off.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Custom is the law of fools.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.