150 quotes found
“None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.”
“You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.”
“To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society.”
“We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.”
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”
“Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative fee...”
“Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what ...”
“Its hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.”
“Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.”
“We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.”
“We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.”
“We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.”
“The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is complete. This is the case over the whole East. Custom is there, in all things, the final appeal...”
“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichs lies a much deeper motherlode of clich. But even clich is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.”
“To hear how much of a great human being you were even if you really werent open your ears at your funeral.”
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than t...”
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
“A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.”
“This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour sh...”
“If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere ...”
