Quotes About Conformity

Kids don't want to dye their whole head another color; that's what their mothers do.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.

In the history of the twentieth century, the principal dramatis personae were National and International Socialisms, better known as Nazism and Communism. Their citizens evaded the duty of self-responsibility by claiming to be following orders. Following orders -attributed to or issued by God, the State, Science, Medicine-is always the easy way out. Refusing to do so requires self-reliance and resisting temptations and threats.

I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.

Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be.

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings

She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward

Nails that stuck out often were hammered back into place.

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

The world is full of interiors that bleach the spirit. Hospitals, police stations, job centres, local government offices and prisons all have their own subtle type of vampire colour scheme and black-hole furnishing, capable by accident or design of wiping away a person's self-esteem and will to resist, like boiled-over soup off a ceramic hob.

The fact that he hated and feared his new environment was largely beside the point, for he had been taught long ago that what he thought and felt about any given subject was without question the least important thing in the world.

Sure, there were other churches, churches where the busybody Pastor wouldn't make a house call to tell you you were going to hell, and wouldn't cry if you disappointed him. But what would be the point of belonging to one of them?

Growing up is a trap, snapped Dr. Robbins. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

And the message, no matter how entertainingly couched, is invariably the same: to be special, you must conform; to be happy, you must consume.

Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.