Quotes About Conformity

he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn't simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's tight, extremely tight, but on the whole you manage it. Your tax papers are up to date. Your bills paid on time. You never go out without your identity card (and the special little wallet for your Visa!). Yet you haven't any friends. The

The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's tight, extremely tight, but on the whole you manage it. Your tax papers are up to date. Your bills paid on time. You never go out without your identity card (and the special little wallet for your Visa!). Yet you haven't any friends.

Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%.

The thought of having become an item in a file calms me. I imagine the volume, its cloth binding; its slightly sad cover; I gently flatten myself between the pages; I am squashed.

Chi siamo davvero? E se la verità fosse altrove, diversa rispetto a quello che pensiamo? E se la parte autentica di ognuno di noi fosse nascosta proprio finché ci sforziamo di controllare tutto, perché ci sono tante cose da fare e non possiamo permetterci il lusso di essere, semplicemente essere, stanchi, depressi, svogliato, capricciosi, noiosi, persino sbagliati e dementi, ecco sì, questo: dementi?

She watched the woman around her. Most of them undulated like strippers or ground their arses into the men dancing behind them. She copied a few of the less X-rated moves and hoped she didn't look like she needed seizure medication.

I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view" -Scott

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

Did you ever have Jennie in RE? Very bright, but so willful. She attracted a little band of kids who'd do anything she told them to." "I just remember that clash with Sparlo during her coming-of-age ceremony. What did she call him? A patriarchal oppressor?" "Racist homophobe was in there somewhere.

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

She didn't know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn't know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

A self that is only differentiated—not integrated—may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person whose self is based exclusively on integration will be connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

civilization is built on the repression of individual desires