Conformity Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Conformity:
What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their "beliefs." The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
~ Michael Crichton Quotes, The Lost World.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
~ Mark Twain.
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.
~ Sidney Jourard.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
~ Abraham Flexner Quotes, Universities, 1930.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
~ Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams.
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
~ John Fischer.
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
~ Jewel Kilcher Quotes, Pieces of You.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
~ Jonathan Swift.
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
~ Ani Difranco.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
~ Eric Hoffer Quotes, Passionate State of Mind, 1955.
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
~ Kin Hubbard.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill.
You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.
~ Daniel Knode.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
~ Lillian Hellman.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
~ John Cage.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
~ Marshall McLuhan.
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