Quotes About Conformity

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

We are against the beauty and fashion fascist regime that gets hyped in America and all over the world. "The Beautiful People" is NOT against people who style themselves in whichever way.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

Sandra stood by, quietly amused: she wore a sugar pink track suit with matching plastic hairslides in the shape of elephants. Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder, like the aura visible to spiritualists, the woman she would be in thirty years time. There is probably nothing to be done about people, he thought, nothing at all, nor ever has been: processed, from the cradle to the grave. Most neither know nor care, which makes it worse.

He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.

men in high collars who might—this

By the way they looked at me, by their perception of me, they would make me into the creature they perceived. I would feel myself becoming a lesser thing. It is the power of men.