Conformity Quotes - Page 5

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?

The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be. To enclose him in the framework of an ideal is to encourage him to conform, which breeds fear and produces in him a constant conflict between what he is and what he should be; and all inward conflicts have their outward manifestations in society.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.