CONFORMITY QUOTES IV

quotations about conformity


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

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
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attributed, A View from the Cosmic Mirror


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Death is just the final form of conformity
if that's what becoming it means
well then I'd rather be the
Lone ranger

MARK SALLING

"Lone Ranger"


Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

THOMAS STEPHEN SZASZ

The Untamed Tongue


He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, Teachers of Wisdom


Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

ERIC HOFFER

Reflections on the Human Condition


I'm not a punk, how can I be?
Show me the way to conformity
Try to be different but it's always the same
End up playin' someone else's game

DESCENDENTS

"I'm Not a Punk", Milo Goes to College


There is a socialization which turns curious children into adult automatons in a social environment of repressive uniformity, and there is a socialization which turns selfish, impulsive children into self-aware and deliberate participants in a larger community.

BENJAMIN R. BARBER

"Forced to Be Free"


May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"--that is to say, men who agree perfectly with their own police.

THOMAS MERTON

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander


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

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity


You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

DOUG FLOYD

attributed, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out...


How deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden


You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

DANIEL KNODE

attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time


That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong ... is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

SOLOMON ASCH

Psychological Monographs


Young men are pretty much like a drove of sheep; any one who takes a decided line on certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

THOMAS HUGHES

Tom Brown at Oxford


We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

ANTONIN SERTILLANGES

The Intellectual Life


Conformity, humility, acceptance--with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

ROBERT LINDNER

Must You Conform?


Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Strength to Love


The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy


Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary