Quotes About Conformity

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.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I'm very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.

I came from a very strict background.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

Our actions, behavior, speech and for that matter anything that we do should strictly comply with our culture.

Seventh grade was the first time I dyed my hair, and I went to school with red and black stripes, so I looked like a zebra.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.