Quotes About Conformity

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.