Quotes About Conformity

He succeeded in staying out of exactly and only those forms of postadolescent trouble that were not winked at, sating himself with those that were.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

When fanatics say, "Obey our religious laws even if you're not a believer," the immediate response must be to break whatever religious laws they are talking about.

In building a work life, people who follow rules, written or unwritten, too closely and in an unimaginative way are often suffocated by those same rules and die by them, quite often unnoticed and very often unmourned.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to.

Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread

The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen

Don't Go With The Flow. The Powers That Be Turn The Taps

Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

Have I shocked you? Remember I was born in a different time, Miss Speedwell. Virginity is Queen Victoria's legacy. The rest of us are not quite so blinkered," she told me. "Take my advice and get rid of yours as fast as you can.

Invariably. We are educated out of common sense, curiosity, and any real merit. We are made to be decorative and worthy of display, with occasional forays into procreation and good works, but nothing more.

The point is that you feel uncomfortable, and you're trying to talk yourself out of it because you think you're supposed to be nice.

Niceness is expected of her, not honesty.

It's some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we've just become such mega-consumers that we can't deal with anything that's slightly inconvenient (basically, anything that requires thought). I was the tofu amidst the Baking Products and Cleaning Supplies.

Seriously, what would you prefer? To stand out from everyone else, or disappear in the crowd? Because I call the latter 'sheep.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.