Saba Qamar Quotes

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

Conformity is dangerous.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.