Quotes About Conformity

People who interfered with your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for you to conform completely and never differ from some accepted standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boring way there was.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.

É repreensível para um rapaz de 15 anos fingir ter 18 para poder conduzir um carro ou beber num bar; mas frequentemente o contexto social torna um dever para a mulher fazer-se passar por mais nova ou fisicamente mais sedutora do que na realidade é.

La desafortunada realidad es que muchos de nosotros escogeríamos nuestra comodidad en lugar de nuestro destino; escogeríamos la seguridad sobre la oportunidad; preferiríamos conformarnos con menos que sacrificarnos más.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. It's

Lumea are nevoie s? te cuprind?, pentru totdeauna, într-o definiÅ£ie simpl?, scurt? ÅŸi definitiv?, asupra c?reia niciodat? s? nu revin?. Iar insul este obligat s? se conformeze propriei sale definiÅ£iuni. Uneori îi place. Alteori se sufoc?.

The hermit crab doesn't look too closely, he just crawls into a shell that isn't his. But remains a hermit. That's my hang-up: if I leave my shell, I can't crawl into yours.

But, like lots of people she knew, she mostly wanted it so she wouldn't have to want it anymore, so that people would get off her back about how she didn't have any.

Blending in isn't too difficult if you wear the Southern "regular guy" uniform of khaki shorts, baseball cap and fisherman sunglasses with a strap running around the back.

For she was not of their world nor did she share their values. When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

There was no tolerance in the Navy for the weaklings and the incompetents who would not learn to keep themselves and their uniforms clean; who were late on watch; or who failed to master the basics demanded by the Navy. They had been beaten for every infraction of the simple rules of seamanship, encouraging them either to conform or to get out.

Do you know what your problem is, Geralt? You think you're different. You flaunt your otherness, what you consider abnormal. You aggressively impose that abnormality on others, not understanding that for people who think clear-headedly you're the most normal man under the sun, and they all wish that everybody was so normal.

You will dance to the tune they play. Or you will take leave of the dance-floor. Because the orchestra's podium is too high for you to climb up there and tell the musicians to play some other tune. Realise that at last. If you think another solution is possible, you are making a mistake. You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

Wygodniej by? Polakiem, bo skoro si? nim urodzi?e?, to masz wszystko na tacy. Masz gotowy patriotyzm, wszystkie odpowiedzi i pytania, nie musisz kszta?towa? si? w ?aden sposób, bo ci wystarcza ta polska to?samo??, do której zreszt? nie przy?o?y?e? r?ki. A czy jeste? ?wini?, czy zrobi?e? cokolwiek dobrego w tym ?yciu – to ju? niewa?ne.

If you do not choose, you'll end up like everyone else in the world who has never chosen. The people who do not actively choose a road to travel always default to the road everyone else is already on.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.3

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.