Quotes About Conformity

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.

The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.

I like to believe that everything in my house, from towels all the same colour, to the coffee machine where I press one button, is there just to make my life simple, but I'm realizing that they are all there to make sure I don't think.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things "because we're supposed to.

Depression is the reward we get for being "good".

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

If you let it be known that you are a poet, you will be sent to the police station.

Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced.

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

I'd hacked my governor module and kept doing my job because I didn't know what else to do (except you know, a murderous rampage, but murderous rampages are overrated and interfere with one's ability to keep watching media)