Quotes About Conformity

I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The trodden path is the safest.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

How do you know you're a girl? I'm wearing a frock. And if you take it off? I get cold, so I put it back on. If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull.

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

Es que no quiero ser este niño, Simón! Quiero ser yo en la próxima vida, pero no quiero ser este niño. ¿Será posible? –Según las reglas, no puedes elegir. Tienes que ser el que eres y nadie más. Pero tú nunca te atuviste a las reglas ¿no es cierto?

Qué le da derecho a sentir asco por los tópicos cuando el resto del mundo los acepta y vive de acuerdo con ellos?

People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.