Quotes About Conformity

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

cuando la iglesia a sabiendas y con ese propósito va en pos de las tendencias e influencias del mundo para ayudarse a obtener la aprobación del mundo, entonces la iglesia misma se vuelve mundana.

Paradigm challenges are never suffered lightly by the orthodox establishment in any field.

this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

And please, keep your voices down!" she yells. Obviously, Miri is exempt from the rules.

Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.

Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs. Until

Once you step away from the herd and let your true self shine, you'll probably find yourself in front of the opinion firing squad (especially if what you want to do is extraordinary and outside of everyone's comfort zones), which is why so many people run screaming from the lives they'd so love to live. Merely allowing yourself to be seen is a risk.

Most people are living on an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

When I first entered the school, I was all set to tie my hair in a ponytail, get a fake tan, and write my homework in pink gel ink. I was prepared to hear girls bragging nonchalantly about the BMWs and diamond earrings they recieved for their birthday. I almost looked forward to hearing the flashlight-wielding nuns tell me to "leave room for the holy ghost" when I danced lewedly with messy-haired prep-school boys

You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.

This word, the people in it- my mother, Tantine- they sort us. Put us in crates. You are an egg. You are a potato. You are a cabbage. They tell us who we are. What we will do. What we will be." "Because they're afraid. Afraid of what we could be." Tavi said. "But we let them do it!" Hugo said angrily. "Why?" "Tavi gave him a rueful smile. "Because we're afraid of what we could be, too.

And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.