Daphne Guinness Quotes

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

So remember this is a bieber world.your just living in it. Bieber or die.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

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

nothing is more restful than conformity.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.

Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press