#conform

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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.


Anna Quindlen


#wisdom #age

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.


Robin Cousins


#dance #deal #figure #figure skating #form

I just don't conform very well.


Shelby Lynne


#i #just #very #well

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!


Wendy O. Williams


#behaviour #bored #conformity #could #hate

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.


Norah Vincent


#gender-stereotypes #loss #maleness #masculinity #tenderness

But the death of spirit goes by another name. It is usually called the birth of reason. The dreams of reason are, at this late date, everywhere to be seen, much like headstones in a cemetery. The inertia of a standard which prunes every tree to the dimensions of a utility pole will, with the same determination, core the heart out of the human personality. This fermenting mind, intoxicated by its heady sobriety, methodically slits its own throat, all the while mistaking the elongating wound for a smile. When the spirit is free, according to Nietzsche, the head will be the bowels of the heart. In these top heavy days that have turned life topsy-turvy the head has little appetite for freedom. Instead it has developed a taste for coprophagy.


Ed Lawrence


#freedom #reason #dating

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.


Marge Piercy


#piercy #rebellion #nature

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.


Henry David Thoreau


#fashion #generation #fashion

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.


George Orwell


#conformity #control #profanity #sexuality #conformity

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.


Thomas Pynchon


#conformity