Quotes About Conformity

So, yeah, his people wouldn't have just frowned on his sex life; they would have handled him only with barbecue tongs while wearing a Hazmat suit and a welding mask

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

The thing was, when you served another, when you lived a role determined by someone else…you could not go back to that constriction once you found out who you truly were. She

Sometimes, pretending to be normal was the very best antidote to weirdness. Fake-it-until-you-make-it was more than psychobabble bullshit.

A veces, fingir ser normal era el mejor antídoto contra las cosas raras. El dicho «finge hasta que lo logres» era algo más que simple verborrea psicológica.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. So what

colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity…with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time... ~ Jack Kerouac

directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another's opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. 

These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

I think there's a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn't make anybody too interesting. There's an ironing out of edges and eccentricities, idiosyncrasies in people and situations.

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

In India, you get typecast so easily!

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.