Quotes About Conformity

Resistance is futile.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice!

Herd Mentality is when you follow a person or a trend just because it has been a hit once or twice.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

We mustn't let ourselves be moulded by this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you.

My life has become a boring pop song and everyone is singing along.

No one can live without the decisions of their own it seems. So they look to someone else to tell them what to be, tell them what to wear, tell them what to say.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.