Quotes About Conformity

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I have fitted perfectly in the team and in the team's style of play.

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his father and grandfather did the same before him. I took the oath because they forced my to, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. Then they sent me to kill people I didn't know who were dressed rather like I was. One day they said to me: "Look, there's one of your enemies, fire at him," and I fired, but missed. But he fired and wounded me. I don't know why they said it was a glorious wound.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

Keeping Up with the Joneses.

We have to let God's love break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church.

Adat itu bikin orang jadi bodo. Adat larang orang kampung belajar menulis, membaca, bikin gambar.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

There is hardly a single action that we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer posses the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

A sea of adolescence streamed by, each of us in our own way trying to both fit in and stand out.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.