453 Quotes About Conformity

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.

Knee-jerk disobedience and anticonformity are no more praiseworthy than the most mindless loyalty to a group.

The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a new and dangerous thought, without any break. If you succeed in this, the business is done. The reader will not forget - the new words will plague and torment him until he has accepted them.

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

A man conforms to his situation, or it conforms to him. A strong and inspirational man does the latter...