Quotes About Conformity

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting

When you can no longer recognize yourself in the mirror, the only way to see yourself then is in the crowd.

Peer pressure is like a mouse, it gnaws though the door till it finds its way through, only if we kill it before its too late.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions

Go against the rules if you must, but never go against your conscience, even if the rules demand it.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell BINGO!

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar¦ But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

If you're a dude and it takes more than 20 seconds to take of your jeans because it's tight,You Gay !

D?-i societ??ii aripi ?i le va arde pe rug.

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de acuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su moral, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de a cuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su mora, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

being where a waist should be instead of up under the armpits as present fashion decreed.

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.

Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical.

Not many people sell their souls to the devil, but many of us sell our souls to the culture. Instead of defining success for ourselves, we let the culture define it for us. Instead of daring to be different, we conform to the pattern of this world. Why? We let our culture have the loudest voice.

One of two things happens over time. Either your theology will conform to your reality, and your expectations will get smaller and smaller until you can hardly believe God for anything. Or your reality will conform to your theology, and your expectations will get bigger and bigger until you can believe God for absolutely everything!

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

At the time, Sills said, "the main thing we experienced was the repression of any kind of deviant behavior under the guise of anti-Communism." None of them could understand why there weren't more people, especially artists, fighting it. "A pall of McCarthyism lay over the land," said Bernie Sahlins, a producer at Playwrights, "and all you heard on TV were mother-in-law jokes.

dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I