Quotes About Conformity

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it...You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.

And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives.

Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.

Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

We aren't who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don't want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.

we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

Y el niño tiene que conformarse con mirar de lejos esos colores verde menta, morado mora, rosa frutilla o amarillo bocado que ofrecen las heladerías. Muy adentro, en su enano corazón, él ya sabe que pertenece a esa muchedumbre conformista que mira las vitrinas tocándose las monedas para el Metro.

If toting the standard equipment is not what male or female, exactly what does? well, duh, its barrettes. At least thats what kids think it is your clothing, hairstyle, toy choice, favorite color. Slippery stuff, that. You can see how perilously easy would be to err

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.