Quotes About Conformity

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Too much good taste can be boring

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community