Quotes About Conformity

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.