Quotes About Conformity

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

I ease out my third-story window and drop onto the brick ledge below, but I'm not even a little bit afraid. I should be, I know. If I were normal. If I had good sense. If I were sane.

But as I looked at everything I was supposed to carry and thought about all the things I was supposed to know, I had to wonder: Do all girls go through this? Is every girl on a date really in deep cover?

Il y a toujours moyen d'obéir. C'est ce que les cerveaux occidentaux devraient comprendre.

Je ne pense pas avoir d'enfants. – Ah. Pourquoi? Ce n'est pas normal. Je m'en allai en fredonnant dans ma tête la chanson de Brassens : « Non, les brav's gens n'aiment pas que / L'on suive une autre route qu'eux. »

You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.

Pero los demás, los que fracasaban en las pruebas, sabían desde su más tierna edad que, en el mejor de los casos, se convertirían en carne de empresa, como hubo carne de cañón. Y luego se sorprenden de que tantos adolescentes japoneses se suiciden.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

I wanted to wear fingerless gloves at my confirmation. I think I always wanted to be different and felt very stifled at school.

You know, I mean, we're all made to wear these faces, you know, of what we think society would want.

If I dress up, I try to wear something that's still a bit me, but then I regret it when I see that everyone else has dressed up more and looks amazing.

I remember during my middle and high school days, I would only wear eyeliner, and I had to wear it every day, even if I was just going to the store.

I would wear one of those plastic pocket protectors, but they make you look like a Republican.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.