Quotes About Conformity

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

Where were all the normal cutesy playful nickknacks most girls her age had? There were no Mickey Mouse or Miffy Rabbit stuffed animals, nor posters of singers like Kazuya Kamenashi, or movie stars like Brad Pitt

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.

La perfección consiste en hacer su voluntad, en ser lo que él quiere que seamos...

Normality is death.

Der Eindruck, den Effi empfing, war überall derselbe: mittelmäßige Menschen, von meist zweifelhafter Liebenswürdigkeit, die, während sie vorgaben, über Bismarck und die Kronprinzessin zu sprechen, eigentlich nur Effis Toilette musterten, die von einigen als zu prätentios für eine so jugendliche Dame, von andern als zu wenig dezent für eine Dame von gesellschaftlicher Stellung befunden wurde.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

In contrast to the Kantian, the categorical imperative of the culture industry no longer has anything in common with freedom. It proclaims: you shall conform, without instruction as to what; conform to that which exists anyway as a reflex of its power and omnipresence. The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.

Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.

They murder so that whatever to them seems living, shall resemble themselves.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

few are so conformist as rebellious youth.

If Custine were among us now, he would recognise the evil of political correctness at once, because of the violence that it does to people's souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe but must not question.

If given a choice between life and death, most church members and church leaders choose death if they have to make substantive changes in their churches.

Alinearse con el proceso significa que todos los departamentos ministeriales sc someten y se ajustan al mismo proceso global.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.