Quotes About Conformity

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.