Quotes About Conformity

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Don't accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.