Quotes About Conformity

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

The task confronting free individuals was to use their new freedom to find the appropriate niche and to settle there through conformity: by faithfully following the rules and modes of conduct identified as right and proper for the location.

Una vez que el rígido marco de los estamentos sociales fue quebrado, la tarea de "autoidentificación" impuesta a los hombres y mujeres de la modernidad temprana quedó reducida al desafío de vivir "fiel a su clase" ("a la altura de los vecinos"), de adecuarse a los tipos sociales de clases emergentes y modelos de conducta, de imitar, siguiendo un patrón, de "aculturarse", sin perder el paso ni desviarse de la norma.

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

Religion in this country is worse than communism. Say the wrong thing, think the wrong thing and, look--there's the Stasi knocking at your door.

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What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.

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The Boov frowned. 'Now you sound like sheep.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

Like will draw like.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

It was a reminder that the labeling of others is usually a silent process. Most people do not openly force us into roles, they merely suggest that we adopt them through their reactions to us, and hence surreptitiously prevent us from moving beyond whatever mold they have assigned us. 12.     A

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

Entrepreneurship appears to be almost wholly dependent on a sense that the present order is an unreliable and cowardly indicator of the possible. The absence of certain practices and products is deemed by entrepreneurs to be neither right nor inevitable, but merely evidence of the conformity and lack of imagination of the herd.

If we refrain from questioning the status quo, it is – aside from the weather and the size of our cities – primarily because we associate what is popular with what is right. The