Quotes About Conformity

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes... I would dress preppy.

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking the law.' 'Why?' 'Because it's the law.'

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

In The Saturdays we went to a premiere once and we wore these dresses and all I can describe them as is colourful bin bags with bows on. And I knew they were bad at the time and remember saying that I really didn't want to wear them but it was the only option we had. I still look back and I think, 'I knew it at the time.'

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty - it's a lofty ambition but it's important to make a start.