Quotes About Conformity

A veces pienso que somos masas uniformes que vamos donde nos lleve otro acumulamiento de masa uniforme, que hacemos lo que hay que hacer porque algo hay que hacer y que amamos molestar al otro por nuestras propias imposibilidades. Impedimentos para hacer algo productivo, algo constructivo...

Amerika hanya suka padamu bila engkau berada pada pihak yang dipilihnya. Kalau engkau tidak sepenuhnya sejalan dengan dia, engkau secara otomatis dimasukan dalam blok Uni Sovyet.

Ahli hukum tidak bisa menyimpang dari azas hukum. Mereka harus taat pada hukum yang berlaku.

Als conformist leef ik, probeer ik te leven, door na te bootsen, uit respect voor de regels van het spel, uit afkeer van originaliteit. Gelatenheid van een automaat: de schijn van hartstocht veinzen en er in het geheim om lachen; je naar de conventies plooien om ze heimelijk te verwerpen; in alle registers voorkomen, maar zonder residentie in de tijd; je gezicht redden terwijl het nodig is het te verliezen...

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at registration and didn't let them out again until graduation.

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

Se eu der o grito de alarme de estar viva, em mudez e dureza me arrastarão pois arrastam os que saem para fora do mundo possível, o ser excepcional é arrastado, o ser gritante.

we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,

Science does not permit exceptions.

Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.

And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. I

And you are not the guy and and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.

when virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

For Marcuse, the distinguishing features of a human being are free and creative subjectivity. If in one's economic and social life one is administered by a technical labor apparatus and conforms to dominant social norms, one is losing one's potentialities of self-determination and individuality. Alienated from the powers of being-a-self, one-dimensional man thus becomes an object of administration and conformity.

To be sure, to impose Reason upon an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea—

Ein Individuum, das sich nicht in einen bürgerlichen Zustand zwingen [lässt], [kann] den Segnungen des Begriffs "Person" nicht teilhaftig werden.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.