Quotes About Conformity

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

As late as 1742, London hatters beat to death a man who dared shape headgear without having gone through the apprentice system.

No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and among the effects drugs may have is that of switching a mind from the normal track. Reading the works of certain writers has a corresponding effect. When receptive individuals explore the writings of someone such as Lovecraft, they are majestically solaced to find articulations of existence countering those to which the heads around them have become habituated.

I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It's my belief, for what it's worth, that a lot of writers consign to the page what they think will meet with the approval, especially in the moral realm, of what their society has preached to them since they were children, almost all of which is utter bull####.

To become formally integrated into a society, one must offer it a blood sacrifice.

He ceased to be a person so that he could remain a successful organism.

You have two choices: Start thinking the way God and your society want you to think or be forsaken by all.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

Alone in a world full of bewildering options, human beings will prefer the reassurance of the pack and the safety of the herd rather than choose to grapple with the ambiguities and consequences of freedom.

This was the same warning José Ortega y Gasset gave when he wrote Revolt of the Masses in 1930: "The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated."24 "I'm as good as you," Screwtape chortles at the end of his address, "is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies.

What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?

But maybe they'd learned, and they'd act just mainstream enough that the other white people would accept their occasional violence

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT

She had decided that the women wouldn't be wearing overly conservative, modest clothes. If a woman was up to no good, she would want to look like the majority.

The famous verses in Romans 12:1–2 warn us against being conformed to this world. How can we resist the pressures of this world? By being transformed by the renewal of our minds!

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Group eating was scarcely less embarrassing than bodily functions

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Perfect harmony with its environment, and perfect expression of its own inward nature are what constitute Beauty;

Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.