Quotes About Conformity

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.

You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making to much noise in restaurants and clubs and winebars. 'Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!' Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.

This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in.

You can see this everywhere you go: young, middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. "Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!" Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.)

Actually, I can see one advantage to the Western way of thinking, which is that if someone has a name, you know what to call them, don't you? It's only one small advantage, and there are millions of big disadvantages, including the biggest one of all, which is that names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

What I reckon is: everyone's a loony. However normal anyone seems, deep down inside they're actually mental, every single person in the world and the whole of your life you have to learn not to seem mental to other people, who are all mental, too… If you think how babies act – we really don't stop being like that. Everyone wants to scream loudly, and grab things without asking and break them, but it's not allowed, is it?

Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado

Ä°ÅŸte ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi, hem de her gün. Ama kimse beni dinlemek, anlamak istemiyor. Kendimi iyi, neÅŸeli hissetmeliyim onlara göre. Her gün Tom Jones dinlemeliyim mesela, ya da ÅŸu dizide oynayan Avusturalyal? k?z?. Ama ne yapay?m, ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi iÅŸte. Radyoda ruh halime uygun ÅŸeyler çalm?yorlar tabii. Kederliysen toplumun d???nda kal?yorsun.

names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..

Holy shit, Bird, I whispered through my teeth. At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.

I remember the first time I realized I could make myself see something that wasn't there. I was ten years old, walking home from school. Some boys from my class ran by shouting and laughing. I wanted to be like them. And yet. I didn't know how. I'd always felt different from the others, and the difference hurt. And then I turned the corner and saw it. A huge elephant, standing alone in the square. I knew I was imagining it. And yet. I wanted to believe. So I tried. And I found I could.

If you live amoung wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.

The pattern of praise and punishment is a familiar one throughout history: those who line up in the service of the state are typically praised by the general intellectual community, and those who refuse to line up in service of the state are punished.

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another.

The Republican Party today has a catechism. If you want to be a candidate, with very rare exceptions, you have to repeat the catechism in lockstep uniformity: global warming isn't happening, no taxes on the rich. There are about ten things that you have to repeat, whether you believe them or not. Anybody who departs from them is in trouble.

A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.