Quotes About Conformity

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.