Quotes About Conformity

thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. And the most effective form of socialization is achieved when people identify so thoroughly with the social order that they no longer can imagine themselves breaking any of its rules.

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.

What matters is not what he has now, but what he might obtain if he does as others want him to do. Caught in the treadmill of social controls, that person keeps reaching for a prize that always dissolves in his hands.

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. And

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

Ne valgis ir g?rimas dievotum? rodo.Kvaila paisyti, kaip žmogus miega –virviniame gulte ar ant p?k? patal?. Valgau, k? noriu, ir miegu, kaip noriu, ir niekas negali man?s už tai smerkti. Tegul mano, kad aš kvaila, jei nori. Man tik geriau.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.

He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else. What a messed-up, lousy existence.

in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else. What a messed-up, lousy existence. And in this great country of Japan—the birthplace of all my fancy ancestors—everyone, everyone wants to be like everyone else. That's why it is such a safe place to live, but it's also a dinosaur village. It's extinct, pal. Carve up your piece and invest your spoils elsewhere.

all those able-bodied middle-class people who are scared of their shadows, well, they pay the mediocre tax in regular quarterly installments with compounding interest. When you play it safe, that's what happens, my friend. So if I were you, I wouldn't throw any games. I'd use every fucking advantage. Beat anyone who fucks with you to a fucking pulp. Show no mercy to chumps, especially if they don't deserve it. Make the pussies cry.

Japan is not fucked because it lost the war or did bad things. Japan is fucked because there is no more war, and in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

You're a young man, and someone should tell you the real truth about this country. Japan is not fucked because it lost the war or did bad things. Japan is fucked because there is no more war, and in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery.

In my line of work, every man wears exactly one outfit: khakis, a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon T-shirt, and a hooded sweatshirt. If you don't wear that, people think you are a Scientologist and no one will eat lunch with you.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

It was a new experience to walk across the city in tiny shorts and a half shirt… I often felt that I would be shot in the back with an arrow or gun, but this didn't happen. The world wasn't safer than I had thought; on the contrary, it was so dangerous that my practically naked self fit right in, like a car crash, it happened every day.

Qué culpa tenía yo si estaba loco de una forma diferente a ellos?

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.