Quotes About Conformity

And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

Collars, trench coats or jackboots – uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.

uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.

wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

You were cruel.' 'I was obedient.

Standing there in your uniform,' she continued, 'as if it makes you something special. Not even caring what it means really. What it stands for.

The powers that be, the Great Unelected Consciences of the World, didn't approve of what she said and that was the end of her.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right

Crushing the toddler's autonomy and purposeful will is the most damaging form of shaming that can be done. When autonomy is crushed, toxic shame is manifested either as total conformity or rebellion against authority. Once willpower, anger and purpose are bound in shame, a child's selfhood and personal power are severely wounded. His drive for separateness and autonomy are bound by shame. This has been called a "purpose shame bind.

Script messages tell us the way we are or what role we are supposed to play in life. They shame who we authentically are and create self-rupture.

Our schools display an enormous bias in educating the mind rather than the whole person. We place major emphasis on reasoning, logic and math, with almost no concern for emotions, intuition and creativity. Our students become memorizing mimics and dull conformists, rather than exciting and feeling creators.

Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and worse still, having been fool enough to accept orders unquestioningly from a machine... But everybody did that. Everybody, all the time. Otherwise none of this would have been possible. Similarly, none of it would have had to happen.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

If you obey all the rules… you will miss all the fun.

Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out for you.

Don't just be in a relationship because everyone is in one, it's not like fashion, there's not trend.

Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

Enjoy your birthday cake today since tomorrow we'll return to judging you based on every single morsel you ingest.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

It`s not so much that they don`t want me to grow up. It`s that they`re annoyed that I`m growing up adjusted. They`d much rather I was growing up and going wild and crashing cars.

Call me a fashion fu..up but I refuse to disregard 1/2 my wardrobe just cause some fool said white wasn't okay after labor day