Quotes About Conformity

I wasn't sure my skeletal system had found a way of walking freely in the Societal System

To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.

Você tem que ser verdadeiro consigo mesmo, mesmo que isso vá contra o que é esperado.

There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Manusia menuntut manusia lain untuk punya drama. Itu syaratnya supaya kita kelihatan normal

He shook his head. "What?" she whispered, looking on the program to see what had caused his consternation. He pointed to her name. "Never in all my days have I seen a girl with so many boy names." She glanced at the neatly typeset Dr. Billy Jack Scott and smiled.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization

Conformity," she wrote, "is the bane of middle class communities.

Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that if we don't rock the boat, too often the one we lose is ourselves...It feels good to be accepted, loved, and approved of by others, but often the membership fee to belong to that club is far too high of a price to pay.

Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.

Many Black students report that to convey their message and have it received the right way, they cannot be emotional while speaking. Squelching their natural style of communication to conform to White talk was often described as humiliating. They described the psychological costs as being inauthentic, having sold out, not being true to the self, and a deep sense of losing one's own integrity.

If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.