Quotes About Conformity

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

My loyalty was questioned for a long time when I was younger, and that's understandable. I found it very difficult to conform and I wanted to do it all my way.

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.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm

You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.

We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking.

Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

we do what we are allowed to

You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.