Quotes About Conformity

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by a media that seems to uphold more bizarrely rigid standards of conformity than those held by any citizen.

The tattoos on my legs started because they didn't let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

The world is the same everywhere.

I don't think I'm defying stereotypes on purpose. If it so appears that way, so be it. For me, I've been brought up that way.