Quotes About Conformity

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".

Henry was in tears. One of the older boys had painted his face black while others held him to the ground. 'You wanna hang round with the boongs,' one of them screamed, 'you're gonna have to be one.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Blank minds think alike.

Friends and colleagues with the same chosen shortlist usually agree and co-operate but rarely ever with others.

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don't you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning 'of one's free will.' Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?' Constance writes in response, 'Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trousers, shoes, and a shirt.

He said we live under grace and not law. He said as followers of Christ our goal is to live like Jesus did and not worry about man-made laws. He said we should strive for purity, not conformity.

Be rational' is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position.

Actually, the most frightening power of freedom is to freely give itself up to the forces that stunt it.

Obedience," Queen Diamond said. "Discipline. Order. Strength. And knowing your place. These are the hallmarks of a true IceWing. Don't you ever forget it again, Arctic.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?

The nail that sticks out the farthest is hit the hardest.

It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living men, speak when they are alone together. 'She has forgotten the distinction between what can and what cannot be said,' he reflected. 'A few more years of this company, and she would not scruple to fart.

Officially the earliest age was eleven for officers' sons and thirteen for the rest, but no one took much notice of the regulation—seven-year-olds were not unknown.) Before

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing."… "Everything's getting gray, and it'll be grayer.

I'm not a fan of Kurt's…I'm no longer writing my thesis on him." "Why?" "He liked guns too much. It didn't sit right with me as a gun control advocate." So, she had become a true conformist, one of the dreaded campus normals!

If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. Oops.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.