Quotes About Conformity

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!