Quotes About Conformity

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really willing to take.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very very political structure to it and if you didn't follow the structure, you weren't considered validated or real and that just gave me anxiety.

Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.