David Icke Quotes

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

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.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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.

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

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

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

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

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

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.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

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 want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

I like the freedom America has. In Japan people tend to think too much about others' opinions and how to be like everybody else but to Americans it seems more important to be who you are and find your own way.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

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?