Quotes About Conformity

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

My first tattoo was when I was 14. I was a bit young, like. I was a big lad so they didn't question my age at the time.

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Nowadays, people get tattoos so easily, to look cool and only for fashion.

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'