Quotes About Conformity

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

I had braids before. They were real long, and they were black, but my mom made me cut them for the McDonald's job. Then, when I got the job, everybody had long braids and colored hair.

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to use force to make the people conform.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I am a believer and a conformist.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.