Quotes About Conformity

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

Most women learned very young to play the roles expected of them. Girls' games were built on the notion: play Mom, play nurse, play teacher. They played and played and played until they learned to inhabit the roles.

You've made more of a life here in three weeks than you've done in five years in Atlanta. I only wonder that you've managed to hide from the obvious for so long. This place is ideal for a Norwegian who isn't really Norwegian anymore. It positively reeks of Scandanavia, all clean and shiny and Americanized full of rules that people obey with a smile when it pleases them and break with a smile when it doesn't. Ideal for you.

Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

The idea of "the free development of personality" seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself. Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

The worst [type of] totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

The sinister uniformity that threatens us will not be imposed by a doctrine, but by a uniform economic and social conditioning.

Die Idee der "freien Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit" scheint ausgezeichnet, solange man nicht auf Individuen stößt, deren Persönlichkeit sich frei entfaltet hat.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.

The psychiatrist considers only vulgar behavior sane.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

D'une manière globale, je dirais que pour écrire, il faut [...] ressentir une profonde insatisfaction devant le discours majoritaire et englobant qui nie les différences et qui sclérose la pensée.

These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)

Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn't learned yet. In this world it's the obedient girls who are most in danger.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.