150 quotes found
“We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.”
“The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.”
“The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.”
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must ha...”
“Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... and suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to mak...”
“Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.”
“Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness.”
“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of contr...”
“A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.”
“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 ...”
“From one dog all the dogs bark.”
“Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, t...”
“And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.”
“They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!”
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class”
“As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them”
“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
“In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine....”
“The Master said of Gong Yechang, He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime. The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.(A...”
