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What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and more, and whose tasks are standardized and can easily be influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority, or principle, or conscience - yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected, to fit into the social machine without friction.

When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

Who were you before the world told you what you were not?

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky -- usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.

When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking. The constant din of empty words and machine noises, the endless booming of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible...

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 make it through life without being ridiculed. Suddenly, he was a part of something. Something important. Something powerful. Something greater than he could ever be on his own. It was amazing how empowering the group could be.

With over a millennia of heritage behind them, each with their own glimpse of empire and some pinnacle of human expression (a Sistine Chapel or Götterdämmerung), now they were satisfied to express their individuality through which Rogers they preferred at the Saturday matinee: Ginger or Roy or Buck. America may be the land of opportunity, but in New York it's the shot at conformity that pulls them through the door.

You cannot really not care about what other people think of you and still wear a perfume or cologne.

You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.

You don’t have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don’t let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don’t find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It’s in your head. It’s what is holding your spine in place. It can’t be hidden by a haircut. It’s not about nail polish or not. It’s running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.

You'd think their freedom would be most sacred to people, but no most would rather conform and fit in.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Becoming is superior to being.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.