Quotes About Conformity

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

Women are regarded as upholding the traditions by conforming to them; men on the other hand uphold traditions by enforcing them—not upon themselves but upon women.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Everyone wants to be accepted by a world that is unacceptable

Deine Anpassungsfäheigkeit—Your ability to adapt," her husband said, "is far more dangerous to you than any of them will ever be. You'll keep adapting and adapting until nothing is left.

Molezelda vaguely. "They always do what their mother tells them. Who are you?" "Nobody in particular," said Wilbur. "Just a prince. Ignore me.

Sometimes I wonder who my mother might be if she weren't married to my father. Everyone around him seems that much less free-spirited, that much less open to possibility, so much more controlled. At her office she is loud and filled with infectious laugher. Here she is more quiet and deferential. I can cut a cucumber, I say more sharply than I intend. She winces and busies herself with searching for a vegetable peeler, if only to make a point.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

Slowly but surely life becomes normal, and a man gets used to it, it doesn't happen any other way.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

She says that you were all molded into being replicas of one another. She says the only way out was to be extraordinary.

So medical schools churn out platoons of unquestioning, prescription-signing zombies.

There will be one world, one flag, one anthem, one army, one government and one leader.

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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

What's that shit?" "Bubbles. It's a bubble bath." "Jesus H. Christ, I can't take a bubble bath. What'll people think? If anybody found out I was taking bubble baths…" "Well, why don't you climb into the tub and I'll go fight off the paparazzi, okay?

Méfie-toi, Artémitch, du confort bureaucratique, C'est de la vase; on s'y noie.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you