Quotes About Conformity

Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?

Cabinet Minister: "The trouble with the Germans is that they are like a lot of sheep; they will follow anybody."] Oh, it is far worse than that, they are carnivorous sheep!

The celebrated and largely successful attempt to solve them took place at the Synod of Whitby in 664. There the hinging issue was whether British Christianity should conform to the general life-plan of Christendom or whether it should be expressed by the monastic orders which had founded the Celtic Churches of the North.

Nago??, phoszÄ™ paÅ"stwa, jest demagogiczna, jest wphost socjalistyczna, bo i có? by byÅ'o, gdyby gmin odkhyÅ', ?e nasza dupa taka sama?!

Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

I was left alone but actually not alone—how could I be alone when I wasn't even there, I had no sense of being there, and not a single thought, gesture, action, or word, in fact nothing seemed to be mine, but rather it was as if it had all been settled somewhere outside myself, decided for me—because in reality I was quite different!

Czasem bywa tak, ?e podziwiamy, boÅ›my przyzwyczaili siÄ™ podziwia?, a tak?e dlatego, ?e nie chcemy popsu? sobie parady. Bywa te?, ?e podziwiamy przez delikatno??, aby nie robi? przykroÅ›ci. Na wszelki wypadek doradzam: uderzmy w nich mocno aby zobaczy?, czy siÄ™ nie przewrócÄ….

In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.

Muerte (Una comedia) KLEINMAN: ¡Oh, no, no pienso quedarme aquí solo! ¡Estás de broma! ¡Hay un loco suelto por ahí! ¡Yo no me entiendo bien con los locos! Soy un individuo muy lógico. AL: El plan no permite que estemos juntos. KLEINMAN: Mira, no hagamos de esto un idilio. No tenemos que estar juntos nosotros. Con doce hombres fuertes cualesquiera me conformo.

I must say, it amazed me how many in my profession caved in like dominoes.

the primary meaning of "Zelig" should be when one searches for a word to describe one who keeps abandoning his position and adopting the new popular one.

Often it sickened me to hear people speak their native tongues fluently. It was as if they were unable to think and feel anything but what their language so readily served up to them.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.

the economic sphere is like a thermometer that reveals both the temperature of the theological relationship between God and Israel (angle A), and also the extent to which Israel was conforming to the social shape required of them in consistency with their status as God's redeemed people (angle B).

Submitting to the rules that govern language and the forms of social interaction is not a natural process, although we all do it.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Those who have bound themselves are only too eager to see the chains on others.

PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION' — REVISITED BY CHRISTOPHER S. HYATT, PH.D. Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt,

Most people's identities were important to them, something they wouldn't shed. It was proud, it was timid, it was laudable, it was stupid. It stuck people with dumb friends and crummy marriages. Trapped them in dead towns and murderous neighborhoods. It manufactured tradition from the uninterrupted drudgery of successive generations. It transformed ignorant belief into folklore, and ignorance itself into defiance. Identity was a trap.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, has been sent by the Son to indwell you so that you might be empowered to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Such is the marvelous gift that God has freely bestowed upon you and me. We will never receive a better gift. Other gifts may thrill us, delight us, even astonish us. But no other gift will ever supersede this gift - because the gift is God Himself.