Quotes About Conformity

I remember it was frowned upon. Considered frivolous, or dangerous, or unbecoming—one of those terms that the moribund use to keep the adventurous in tow.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Insistence on conformity—cultural, religious, or otherwise—was self-defeating, causing strife and undermining trade and business.

should we just ignore all of the tidy boxes?

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

Donuk ve yavan oldu?u halde, ayn? olan? yeniden üretmeye s?rt?n? dayam?? bir ülkeden daha ümit k?r?c? ne vard?r?

In the life of every believer, there is conformity to Christ's suffering, a participation in Christ that inevitably includes the elements of self-denial, shame, and loss.

People don't always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

Will we trust that God is good even when life is not? Our response to pain and challenges determines so much about our future. If we decide to trust, we will grow in our faith, deepen in our intimacy with God, and be conformed to the image of Christ. But if we allow our hearts to drift, we'll wake up one day drowning in doubts, buried in burdens, and feeling far from the only one who can help us heal.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.

The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.

See, everyone here's afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that's how they live, and they don't even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don't unnerstand that it's just a choice you make.

Fitting in also poses another, related kind of identity problem: being accepted means they have to give up or at least hide some of the values and attitudes they acquired overseas, the qualities that now set them apart.

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...

It's not that the government made us do it; you can't think that way," John said. "They made us not ask questions, they told us what to think, but also, we did it.

From the minute you start school, you're fed a bunch of lies: Be yourself. Don't follow the crowd, blah blah. What they really mean is: Follow the crowd. Just make sure it's the right one."' – Total Constant Order (208)

Just trying to blend in. That's the way of the world." "Well, that's the way of America, at least," my mom said.

wasn't allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn't feel the thing I was supposed to claim.

Desear el amor no es debilidad, la debilidad consiste en conformarnos con algo menos que el amor.

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.