Quotes About Conformity

You normally shouldn't do this, though — it's not the Python way.

Never forget: dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

After she went to school, they taught her the correct way to draw, and all the life went out of her art.

However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity, and finally tyranny.

In addition to the problem of teacher competency there is the malignancy of statist-driven political conformity, ideological indoctrination, social engineering, and academic experimentation that have suffused public schools with such agendas as multiculturalism, global warming, and the distortion of American history, among other things.22

These days, the law is frequently used by the statists against the individual—to exploit his labor and expropriate his property, to repress his free will and compel his conformity. Rather than securing liberty and ensuring justice through the Constitution's prescriptions and proscriptions, the statists' perversion of law has become the government's most potent weapon against its original purpose.

Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance. The

I stopped being a little Christ and instead began filling out the application that I had labeled Christian. It was not a definition based on the actual namesake, but rather on those who frequent the clubhouse. And in the midst of being an American Christian among all the other American Christians, I stopped truly searching the nuances of who Christ was and is in order to fully grasp what a little Christ might, indeed, act like.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

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

One of the things that (we) religious people often do is try to change ourselves into what we think God or the Church wants us to be like.

If you're inclined to worry, society sure has given you a good selection.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs. They come up to you and say "You gotta dance! you gotta dance!" And then I dance, and they're like, "Not like that!"

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.