Quotes About Conformity

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be.

Individuality is a flame that can start a wildfire in a world of conformity.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

To believe is therefore not only to come into the faith but to be conformed to the image of the crucified Christ. To be baptized is to share the existence of the crucified one.

To them, joining a group and putting themselves at the mercy of someone else's collectivist judgment makes about as much sense as

It's not that you want a baby, or want to get married, or any of it. It's not your bag. You just feel tired for some reason. Tired of the world. Tired of trying to fit in where you don't.

It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break their spirit. I

When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things you don't want to do, forced interaction with peers, following rules that you don't believe in) that are important. What's implied is that the real world is going to be an unhappy place and that being treated unfairly by people is a part of life.

Han hadde godtatt det alle stakk hodet i sanden for å skjule; at vi alle sakte men sikkert ble slipt like som stein på stranda, samme hva vi mente. Bak vår tilkjempete eksentrisitet, bak valget av fritidssysler, bak valg av kone, av studier, av forbilder, elskerinner, sigarettmerker og dagdrømmer, var vi alle konforme, snart var det bare fingeravtrykkene som viste at vi ikke var identiske.

If our mothers are rolling over every time we do something on their list of things a lady shouldn't do, they've been flopping like flounder since they were buried.

I think they abuse anyone who don't toe the line. And with religious folk, that line can be a murky mess. People ain't got limits when they sure God is behind 'em.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Wounded, narcissistic parents may need a grateful child. A father who was unpopular or clumsy as a child may need an athlete. A parent afraid of his or her own anger may need an acting-out child. The real child, the child who was meant to grow and develop into a self in his or her own right, is often never seen. Even if Joan's interest had been in science or math, her mother needed a dancer—and children will make every effort to be what is expected of them.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,

I lived up to the wishes and expectations of people in authority, not because I was forced to, but because I wanted to. I didn't know anything else.

I was baffled by my fuzzy hair and the attention it drew, and the urgency with which people advised that I have it 'straightened', as if it posed a threat.

You can't just hop in a car and drive to California," she said. "Yes, I can." She let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you ever have that little voice in your head that tells you something is a bad idea?

Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

Accompanying this external style of functioning may be a propensity to be guided rather by strict rules, regulations and social conformity which provide existential anchoring via their predictable codes of behaviour, rather than by feelings which for the alexithymic individual provide no such security.

Cuanto más despersonalizado un grupo, menos reflexivo y más sordo y ciego, más granítico y más fanático. Hay algo religioso en todos ellos, heredan enemigos y veneraciones y creencias que jamás cuestiona nadie, esa es su fuerza.