Quotes About Conformity

Bah-Bah-black sheep, have you any soul?No sir, by the way, what the hell are morals?

I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate's clothes, but it didn't make me Kate.

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be 'wrong', which is what our education encourages us to believe.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.