Quotes About Conformity

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Everybody trying so hard to be different only results in everybody being the same.