Conformity Quotes - Page 20

• I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Money, Motivation

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• You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Perfect, Individuality, Monsters

  "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Culture, Demand

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival of the fittest ethic, promoting conformity over dissent, the strong over the weak, and fear over responsibility, it also gives rise to what David Graeber has called a "language of command" in which violence becomes the most important element of power and mediating force in shaping social relationships.

  Henry Giroux

  Strong, War, Moving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

  Mary Webb

  Years, People, Heaven

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• The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only through the screen culture and institutional apparatuses of conformity, but is also reproduced through a culture of fear and a carceral state that imprisons more people than any other country in the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Memories, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Denial, Celebrate

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Fun, Hate

  Source: progressive.org

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• Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Individuality, Deviance

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Fundamentals, Requirements

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Law

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• Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

  Richard J. Foster

  Sick, Sick Society

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Bored, France

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• I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Order, Too Much

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Respect, Hate, Soul

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• Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

  Jane Fonda

  Bells, Jars, Bell Jar

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Pay

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• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Different, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.56, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.

  Richard Louv

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock sex, using drugs, defying everything decent in society. But that's not freedom, is it? That's not even anarchy. What it is, is simple conformity. That's all it really is.

  Michael Savage

  Crazy, Simple, Thinking

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• Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

  Simon Doonan

  Fashion, Real, Identity

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• We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Teaching, Reform, Standards

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Holiness, Holiness Of God

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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