Quotes About Conformity

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Sanity is not statistical.

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

The truth is, that MOST of the time MOST of us take the road MOST traveled, the path of least resistance and MOST comfortable.

If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.

The worst illness is to live life that others want you to live and best medicine to this illness is "Awareness of Death

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.