Louis Kronenberger Quotes

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

In our society, no one dares to be themselves.

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have goals but those specific benchmarks can easily become irrelevant once you ask yourself, 'where am I having the most impact?' 'Am I going after the stories I want to tell?'

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

People don't want other people to be people.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

There's a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there's a lot of compromise that goes with that.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.