Quotes About Conformity

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

I'm no different than anyone else.

It's not that I have anything against school. I just don't approve of the system.

I wanted to be liked when I was younger, which I think a lot of us do; I'm not ashamed to say it. I was a product of my environment, a product of my culture.

For some time past she had been suspected of being au fond, in spite of appearances, an "original." In the provinces it was not permissible to be original: being original means having ideas that are not understood by others; the provinces demand equality of mind as well as equality of manners and customs.

a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

Biurokratija, kaip ir kariuomen?, turi savo pasyv? paklusnum?; tai sistema, kuri užgniaužia s?mon?, žmog? paver?ia nieku ir gal? gale j?, tartum kok? sraigt? ar veržl?, prisuka prie valdžios mašinos.

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government

In the first place, my child, from what you have yourself told me, it is clear that the one unpardonable sin in society is to be happy.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

And it was in sheer self-defence that they obeyed - as if by dancing they somehow or other escaped from that tune, which seemed to be themselves.

We are all driven into the same fold.

The divine order then is first pardon, then holiness; first peace with God, and then conformity to the image of that God with whom we have been brought to be at peace.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Vivir sin leer es peligroso, obliga a conformarse con la vida, y uno puede sentir la tentación de correr riesgos.

The five elements of the complex adaptive system are conformity enforcers, diversity generators, inner-judges, resource shifters, and intergroup tournaments.

Here was an arch lesson in the games subcultures play. Reality is a mass hallucination. We gauge what's real according to what others say. And others, like us, rein in their words, caving in to timidity. Thanks to conformity enforcement and to cowardice, a little power goes a long, long way.

He is a human being in kid's clothing. He has the organs and the feeling of his species, but none of the rights. And he is not alone. This country is stewing itself in the notion that you're not a person until you reach voting and drinking age. It's wrong. You don't get it, Doctor (with all due respect), and because you don't get it you can't give it. Let him go home. He isn't crazy, he isn't even strange. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

The way an institution works is that you go along with the prevailing fiction.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.