Quotes About Conformity

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.