54 Best conformity Quotes

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism. – Christopher McCandless
Into the Wild conformity Change Courage
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism. – Christopher McCandless
Into the Wild conformity Change Courage
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. – Tyler Durden
Fight Club Rules Rebellion identity conformity
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. – John Keating
Dead Poets Society Perspective conformity Individuality Education
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. – John Keating
Dead Poets Society Individuality voice conformity Time
I want you to find your own walk right now. Your own way of striding, pacing. – John Keating
Dead Poets Society Individuality conformity Self-Discovery
We must constantly look at things in a different way. – John Keating
Dead Poets Society Perspective conformity Individuality
Don't be resigned to that. Break out! – John Keating
Dead Poets Society Rebellion conformity Carpe Diem Life
Avoid it at all costs. – John Keating (on conformity)
Dead Poets Society conformity Individuality Warning
Now, we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular. – John Keating
Dead Poets Society conformity Individuality Acceptance self-trust
Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man. – Mr. Nolan
Dead Poets Society Dreams pragmatism conformity Happiness
You are born alone and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. – Don Draper
Mad Men Existentialism loneliness conformity Truth
It’s a mistake to be conspicuously happy. – Bertram Cooper
Mad Men conformity appearances Restraint Society
I don't think anyone wants to be one of a hundred colors in a box. – Don Draper
Mad Men Individuality conformity advertising identity
Oh, yeah, you gotta get schwifty. – The Head of the Giant Floating God Head
Rick and Morty Absurdity Religion Music conformity Comedy
The Sibyl System is absolute. Our duty is to trust in its judgments and faithfully carry out our given roles. – Ginoza Nobuchika
Psycho-Pass system order duty conformity
I’d rather be a beast than a man who lives a life of quiet desperation. – Kogami Shinya
Psycho-Pass Freedom Humanity conformity Rebellion
My lady, you must not run! A noble princess does not run! – Lady Sagami
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya conformity Social Norms Restraint
A princess does not show her teeth when she laughs. – Lady Sagami
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya conformity Suppression Social Norms
I'm a rat. We're not supposed to like good things. We're supposed to like garbage. – Emile
Ratatouille Expectation conformity Desire Nature
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
1984 Reality Truth Power control conformity
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. – Winston Smith
1984 Thought Control conformity Power Rebellion Death
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
1984 conformity Thought Control ignorance Power
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
1984 propaganda control conformity Reality
Sanity is not statistical.
1984 Individuality Reality conformity Truth sanity
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
1984 Self-Deception Truth control conformity secrecy
The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed—would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime.
1984 Thoughtcrime control Rebellion fear conformity
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.
1984 Power Truth Reality control conformity
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. – Winston Smith
1984 defeat control conformity Love Power Betrayal
The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.
1984 Thoughtcrime control Power conformity ideology
Everybody's happy now. – Mustapha Mond
Brave New World Happiness control Stability conformity utopia/dystopia
I'm always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. – Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye Phoniness Society conformity
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Anna Karenina Habit Society conformity Adaptation
I knew what the world expected of me and I'd always acquiesced, either out of indifference or to make people happy.
The Stranger Society Expectations Indifference conformity
It was a pleasure to burn.
Fahrenheit 451 Censorship conformity destruction Power
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? – Beatty
Fahrenheit 451 apathy distraction Society conformity
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Fahrenheit 451 anti-intellectualism Education Society conformity
The terrible tyranny of the majority.
Fahrenheit 451 conformity Society oppression individualism
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
Invisible Man conformity Expectation self-determination Regret
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.
Invisible Man conformity self-determination identity Struggle
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein sanity Individuality conformity Introspection
On Wednesdays we wear pink. – Gretchen Wieners
Mean Girls conformity social rules popularity
You're just too darn loud, kid. – Mr. Strickland
Back to the Future authority Rebellion conformity Humor
You're gonna have to learn to work and function as a team. You are not special. You are not individuals. – Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
Full Metal Jacket authority Teamwork conformity dehumanization
You like Huey Lewis and the News? – Patrick Bateman
American Psycho Pop Culture conformity Obsession prelude
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. – Patrick Bateman
American Psycho critique conformity taste superficiality
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage! – Aunt Frances
Practical Magic Family Courage Individuality conformity
We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that. – Christof
The Truman Show Reality control conformity Perception
Please enjoy each quote equally. – Lumon Perk Coffee Mug
Severance corporate culture conformity Absurdity control
Sometimes you have to go along to get along. – Walter
Son in Law Family conformity Acceptance Wisdom
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