Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.
George OrwellTag: conformity custom unwritten-rules
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
Derek LandyTag: conformity
It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.
Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.
It's not out of duty that I read about Jesus; it's a respite.
Tag: conformity expectations autism
There seemed never to be a moment when he was not haunted by the fear of being thought lacking by his British colleagues. And yet it seemed to be universally agreed that he was one of the most successful Indians of his generation, a model for his countrymen. Did this mean that one day all of India would become a shadow of what he had been? Millions of people trying to live their lives in conformity with incomprehensible rules? Better to be what Dolly had been: a woman who had no illusions about the nature of her condition; a prisoner who knew the exact dimensions of her cage and could look for contentment within those confines.
Amitav GhoshTag: conformity colonialism insecurity
National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.
George F. WillTag: intelligence conformity independence
Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.
Erich FrommTag: conformity individualism 1956
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.
Evelyn WaughTag: intelligence education conformity
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