Quotes About Conformity

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

I changed? Either that or I stopped acting the way you wanted me too.

There are time whens you want to say or feel things but you don't, as we end up thinking if it's right or wrong. But we forget feelings does not have boundaries unlike the norms of life made by us... Sometimes it's better to let them flow.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

They tell you to be yourself and then judge you for it.

Society is funny. They ask you to be yourself and yet they judge you.

You can't be yourself in this world without being labeled.

The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.