Quotes About Conformity

I wish I could fit in; opposed to standing out and being labeled as weird. I wish I could just be normal.

I'm sick of being labeled as a certain type of person, I'm just me!

Being labeled is like being judged for life. It is like your future is laid out already.

Being labeled is like being told, "Everybody has a group they belong to, and if you don't go in the group, society will hate you either way..."

Being labeled feels like being coloured in with a highlighter pen. All actions feel like they draw attention, and none are viewed as sane.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

There is no individuality if your idea of being original is to follow the trend.

Don't be weird just for the sake of being different.. It comes off a bit psychotic.

I really hate people who are weird and controversial for the sake of being weird and controversial. I'm lookin at you Lady Gaga.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at crating around it an absolutely uniformity of type.

You laugh at me `cause I'm different. I laugh at you because youre all the same.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.

Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.

Our teachers were firm believers in the corporal punishment that Americans had given up, which was probably one reason they could no longer win wars. For us, violence began at home and continued in school, parents and teachers beating children and students like Persian rugs to shake the dust of complacency and stupidity out of them, and in that way make them more beautiful.

Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.

There are things that you don't do when you know that people are watching you.

There are two kinds of people: those who don't do what they are told, and those who do only that.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.

Jesus is superior to any man, and he has regenerated our spirits and predestined us to conform to his image. The Holy Spirit is superior to any earthly thing, and his power clothes each believer with a heavenly quality that cannot be matched or mimicked by the non-Christian. The Christian is a superior kind of human because God is superior to any man or woman, and God indwells the Christian in all his fullness.

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

How does one become mediocre? By complying with and conforming to one thing today and another tomorrow, as the world dictates, by never contradicting the world and by heeding public opinion"_Page.250