Quotes About Conformity

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up and sit down.

Never back down because you'll spend the rest of your life saying what if and regretting that choice to go with the flow and submit.

Dont make a decision based solely on popularity, just because other people are doing it doesnt mean its the best choice.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be.

Its hard to be yourself in a world that wants you to be like them.

You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes to moral issues, you should not be swayed by popular opinion.

The greatest regret is being what others would want you to be rather than being yourself.

When people laugh at you for being different, laugh right back at them for being the same.

Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and to be more creative.

I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else.

Never change yourself to conform to society's shackles and chains! Your uniqueness will always make you beautiful

We All Want To Be Different Which Makes Us All The Same.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.

had begun, one fine day, to regard him as stupid and absurd because the friends that she had among the younger writers and actors had assured her that he was, and she duly repeated what they had said with that passion, that lack of reserve which we show whenever we receive from without, and adopt as our own, opinions or customs of which we previously knew nothing.

As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live, most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Je fis comme eux avec cet air naturel d'un libre-penseur dans une église, lequel ne connaît pas la messe, mais se lève quand tout le monde se lève et se met à genoux un peu après que tout le monde s'est mis à genoux.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

I saw all the male guests take up the similar carnations that were lying by their plates and slip them into the buttonholes of their coats. I did as they had done, with the air of spontaneity that a free-thinker assumes in church, who is not familiar with the order of service but rises when everyone else rises and kneels a moment after everyone else is on his knees.