Quotes About Conformity

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2).

Just because majority do something doesn't validate it to be the best thing to do

You see, people hang labels, tags of false identification, on the people that disturb their own sense of reality too much, like the bells that used to be hung on the necks of lepers.

we have red triangles as politicals, so we let the

If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.

The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

We live in a world that worships limitations

In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.

Political correctness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Group dynamics and the decision to sacrifice the individual for the group are the first steps in a march down the road to Thought Crimes (euphemistically termed Hate Crimes) and totalitarianism in its purest form.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

Frightened people are obedient–not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally.

The pictures are good, Toby. They're good. But this is the only way, no one'll ever look twice if they come from me, I went to art school—

Everything about her is pure faultless middle-class–the accent, the clothes, the hair, the china patterns, it's as if she ordered herself from a catalogue–but you can see the incredible effort that goes into every second of it.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

He no longer believed in ideals and stuff. He wished that he could kick out the beliefs he had held so dear all his life. Why should he bear the burden of these principles when all most people do is only touch their lips to the cup of wisdom but not take it into their hearts and minds? Why should he bother with being the only believer?

No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

However much we talk about our longing for change in ourselves and the world, the actual prospect of that change, and the cost of it in terms of engaging in battle with the powers of conformity, produces some ambivalence at best. Ambivalence generates resistance. It is hard to get carried away when we're hanging on tightly to the familiar.