Quotes About Conformity

Custom reconciles us to every thing.

Two or three people had gone to Limerick and bought 'The Country Girls.' The parish priest asked them to hand in the books, which they did, and he burnt them on the grounds of the church.

Sin is ultimately against God. It is any failure to conform to the law of God in either action or attitude

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it and be in agreement.

Things that are understood are not scandalized. Shock - scandal is basically fear. The scandal is, after all, the fear of losing one's personality. In short, the shocked person is uncertain, hence a conformist.

Los hombres normales no eran buenos -siguió pensando- porque la normalidad se pagaba siempre, consciente o inconscientemente, a un precio muy caro y con una serie de complicidades varias, todas tan negativas; de insensibilidad, de estupidez, de vileza, cuando no derechamente de criminalidad

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.

most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

sono pecore,che seguono il gregge. Votano per persne cosiddette popolari perchè è facile. La bellezza esteriore: capelli biondi,occhi azzurri" - mi stava guardando - " è sempre facile riconoscerla. Ma se qualcuno è coraggioso, forte, in gamba, è difficile vederlo

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

You don't question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you'd brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is "lawful," you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence "unlawfully.

In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm — who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.

On what principle are we to awake the sleeper? In the name of what shall the flabby personality, magnetised by trifles, be inspired, be made discontented with its present way of life of railways, telegraphs, newspapers and cheap goods? Individuals do not step out of the ranks because there is not the occasion. For whom, for what, or against whom are they to come forward? The absence of energetic men is not a cause but a consequence

Few people in our culture have the courage to be themselves. Most people adopt roles, play games, wear masks, or put up facades.

If being crazy means having a hard time adapting to the world as it is (a definition that I agree with), then society is crazy."1

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare?   For this your locks in paper durance bound,   For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100   For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,   And bravely bore the double loads of lead?