Quotes About Conformity

Without a solid sense of self, individuals will remain spiritually enslaved to the group, even if the social system changes.

She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their common sense.

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU

You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

We each see ourselves as being a certain kind of person with a specific set of values, beliefs, and dreams. In practice, however, we often are not what we want to be but instead end up choosing what others expect us to be. This is called our ought self. Avoid it.

After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

If a teacher said they needed a kid to jump off the roof, Andrea would

The next morning everybody was wearing the official school uniform. The boys had on light blue shirts, blue pants, and blue ties. The girls had on blue skirts with stripes on them. I looked like a dork. But everybody looked like a dork, so I didn't feel so bad.

On the morning of the wedding, my mom said I had to wear a jacket and tie. What's up with that? Why do men have to wear a dumb cloth around their neck? Whoever thought up that idea should get the Nobrain Prize. That's a prize they give to people who don't have brains.

requisite variety — the ability to survive under varied conditions. Often this means "fixing" input behind the scenes in code so that all the varied inputs conform to the format that the code/database needs

Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them.

En tradition er en flov undskyldning for en evig gentagelse af de samme dumheder

There's no fun in playing safe or by the rules, but it's not fun being hit by a semi-truck either.

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

Ours is such a system. We are in the grip of institutionalized madness.

if you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

The problem is that our corporate, government, and education cultures are configured for the 75 or 80 percent of people who are larks or third birds. Owls are like left-handers in a right-handed world—forced to use scissors and writing desks and catcher's mitts designed for others. How they respond is the final piece of the puzzle in divining the rhythms of the day.

In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments

In our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.