But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice
Ayn RandTag: conformity groupthink masses
Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?
Robert BuettnerTag: conformity universe science-fiction arrogance humankind human-behavior world-view human-superiority grand-picture
We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
H.M. ForesterTag: conformity mediocrity norms
I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.
Storm ConstantineTag: humanity society evil conformity
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
Criss JamiTag: wisdom truth honesty persistence conformity perseverance wise true rebellion rebel honest spite conform stand-up standing-out take-a-stand rebelling
Everyone knows that children and teens want to blend in and follow the crowd. And from whom do they learn this lesson? Adults, of course. Let's face it: Americans follow the herd. If you want to be successful, we are told in myriad ways, conformity is the way to go. Look at corporate America, with its "team player" ethic and all the strict rules delineating what you can and cannot wear on Casual Fridays. Consider the cycles of women's fashion, which dictate when square-toed, chunky-heeled shoes are out and when pointy-toed, ankle-straining stilettos are in. And what about best-seller lists and electoral horse-race polls and movie box-office postings? Everyone wants to know what everyone else is reading and seeing and thinking--so that they can go out and read and see and think the very same things themselves.
If adults possess this tendency to efface themselves in this way, teenagers have it magnified to the thousandth degree. But studying and following the fashions of the times are not enough; teens also feel a need to be associated with fashionable people--the popular people. Their goal is to crack the glass ceiling that separates mere mortals from the "in" crowd. If they are unsuccessful, and most are, they console themselves with a clique of their own. Even an unpopular clique is, the thinking goes, is better than no clique at all.
Tag: conformity
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. They cannot see in secret; they love to be blind in public. They think society is wiser than their soul, and know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: conformity individualism intuition transcendentalism
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.
Paul KrassnerTag: individuality conformity non-conformity
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Eleanor RooseveltTag: individuality conformity eleanor-roosevelt
Younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.
Erick EricksonTag: conformity popularity
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