Quotes About Conformity

we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. Once

The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.

And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it.

people fit their beliefs to actions rather than fit their actions to their beliefs.

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.

It was a barbell—play it safe at school and read on your own, have zero expectation from school.

not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Many are forced by peer and social pressures to do so

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

I was acutely conscious of the pressure to adapt and to absorb the values of the tribe--family, community, and culture. It seemed to me that what was asked was the surrender of my judgement and also my conviction that my life and what I made of it was of the highest possible value. I saw my contemporaries surrendering and losing their fire--and, sometimes in painful, lonely bewilderment, I wanted to understand why. Why was growing up equated with giving up?

Self-reliance and self-responsibility were seen as supremely appropriate in this new order of things, in contrast to the conformity and obedience more valued in earlier, tribal societies. Independence became an economically adaptive virtue.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

Or this:—that the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's breadth out of the beaten track.

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action

dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which

Me, I just want to wear ordinary clothes and not stand out.

In numerous ways Disney struck what may be the very fundament of entertainment: the promise of a perfect world that conforms to our wishes.

Who says I'm insane? Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.