Quotes About Conformity

Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.

Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.

EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?

She studies mathematics at the Sorbonne. .... - Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. - Yes, but I did it in the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebells with mathematics?

Los afganos cuidan y protegen las costumbres, pero aborrecen las reglas.

I hate that more than anything—being part of a cliché.

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up. The world doesn't end, Bree said quietly. Amazing, but it really doesn't.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

A nadie le importan los libros, por eso puedes escribir lo que te dé la gana en ellos. A la gente le importan las normas.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.

Why couldn't I be down there having fun like a normal teenage girl? Why did I always have to feel threatened? Under fire?

my mother used to say that nothing limited the human spirit like propriety.

We talk about normal, and for legal and practical reasons set a bar for expected societal norms. But can any of us really claim normality?" Rese

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.