Quotes About Conformity

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

When I was hospitalized at the age of fifteen, the psychiatrist asked me why I had made myself so ugly. I thought he had nerve asking me that, since I thought I looked pretty damn cool with red spiky hair, black lips, white lace tights, and outsize army boots. He insisted, was I afraid of being pretty? He said that I had such lovely eyes.

Waking into a room, checking whether there are men in it, wanting to please them. Not talking to loud. Not being forceful. Not sitting with your legs splayed to be more comfortable. Not speaking with authority. Not talking about money. Not wanting a position of authority. Not seeking glory. Not laughing too loud. Not being too funny. Pleasing men is a complex art, which requires that one should eliminate anything remotely concerned with power.

Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; therefore, what happened once can happen always.

People laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at people cause the are all the same.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions

And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went

Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!

joining the crowd is the only thing all men can do.

Civilisation and top hats bore me.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.