Quotes About Conformity

if she'd had a tough time trying to live life as the Colored Professor. Annalee knew that in this uniform, she would simply disappear. her identity would blur and fade, then - poof- disintegrate. No wonder Benita acted so angry. In these clothes, people don't even see her.

An ignorant society is a safe society.

Human beings are not very imaginative nor creative, so we try to put all our experiences into existing templates and categories based on our previous experiences.

On vous classe dans des catégories bizarres dont vous n'avez jamais entendu parler et qui ne correspondent pas à ce que vous êtes réellement.

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it's pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

You're a good boy. I wish you didn't have to be quite so good

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

Everyone's got something. Not even just us, everyone we know. (...) Except maybe the indie kids. They're probably the most normal ones out there.

We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?" "You're lazy?" Wil suggested.

Why wasn't I already kissing this woman? Why wasn't I naked, eating violets, and playing music underneath the open sky? Looking around the room again, everything seemed terribly ridiculous. These people sitting on their benches wearing layers on layers of clothing, eating with knives and forks. It all struck me as so pointless and contrived. It was incredibly funny. It was like they were playing a game and didn't even realize it. It was like a joke I'd never understood before.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience,

Il y a peu de choses aussi répugnantes qu'une obéissance aveugle.

It didn't matter that everyone else seemed to be doing it. To butcher a cliche, if everyone jumped off a bridge, they would all get wet. And some were going to drown. Or

that he was a good boy trying to be bad.

Nurse Ratched,

So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, right-minded, dull and smug.

And this country, the latent hight school homosexual that it is, the mulatto passing for white that it is, the Neanderthal incessantly plucking its unibrow that it is, needs people like him. It needs somebody to throw baseballs at, to fag-bash, to nigger-stomp, to invade, to embargo. Anything that, like baseball, keeps a country that's constantly preening in the mirror from actually looking in the mirror and remembering where the bodies are buried.

Thou shalt worship no god other than whiteness. Thou shalt not disagree with anything a white person says. When traveling in the company of a white person, thou shalt always maintain a respectful distance of two paces to the rear. If traveling by car for lunch at McDonald's with three or more white human deities, thou shalt never ride in the front seat nor request to change the radio station.

And this country, the latent high school homosexual that it is, the mulatto passing for white that it is, the Neanderthal incessantly plucking its unibrow that it is, needs people like him. It needs somebody to throw baseballs at, to fag-bash, to nigger-stomp, to invade, to embargo. Anything that, like baseball, keeps a country that's constantly preening in the mirror from actually looking in the mirror and remembering where the bodies are buried.

I did that because I was trying very hard. To fit in. To be one of the gang. I wanted to have a place so much that I did things I didn't really want to do.' He glanced at Joan. 'I've got a place now, I know who I want to be. I've grown up. I'm sorry that I gave you the wrong advice.

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.