{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty.","author":"Kylie Scott","tags":["beauty","conform"],"id":15704,"author_id":"Kylie+Scott"},{"text":"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["beliefs","brainwashed","brainwashing","compatibility","conclusions","conform","conformist","conformity","critical-thinking","herd-mentality","independent-thinking","independent-thought","indoctrination","nonconformity","puppet","sheep","sheep-mentality"],"id":20066,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["act","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","believe","conform","conformity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","expect","expectation","expectations","feel","feeling","feelings","funny","gnome","gnomes","human","human-being","human-beings","humanity","humans","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","mankind","maxim","maxims","people","person","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","think","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":35272,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.","author":"Evita Ochel","tags":["choice","choices","conform","conforming","conformity","conscious","consciousness","free-will","group-think","herd-mentality","life","lifestyle","peer-pressure","society"],"id":36234,"author_id":"Evita+Ochel"},{"text":"We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.","author":"Gordon B. Hinckley","tags":["conform","life","pray"],"id":60611,"author_id":"Gordon+B.+Hinckley"},{"text":"If you want to conform, then how can you change?","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["conform","conformity","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","how-to-change","inspirational","philosophy","quotes"],"id":65401,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the 'rugged individual' part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individual, be my own man and conform at the same time? Conforming means 'Don't make a wave', 'Don't rock the boat'. Be a nice gal or a good ol' boy. This means that we have to pretend a lot.  'We are taught to be nice and polite. We are taught that these behaviors (most often lies) are better than telling the truth. Our churches, schools, and politics are rampant with teaching dishonesty (saying things we don't mean and pretending to feel ways we don't feel). We smile when we feel sad; laugh nervously when dealing with grief; laugh at jokes we don't think are funny; tell people things to be polite that we surely don't mean.' - Bradshaw On: The Family.","author":"John Bradshaw","tags":["conform","congruence","dishonesty","good-boy","good-girl","lies","make-waves","paradox","politeness","pretence","rock-the-boat","shame"],"id":82718,"author_id":"John+Bradshaw"},{"text":"If you conform, you can never reform.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["conform","conformity","debasish","debasish-mridha","mridha","philosophy","reform"],"id":100515,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","conform","conformity","exist","existence","hoard","hoards","mediocre","mediocrity","passive","surrender","surrendering","survival","survive","vision","visionless"],"id":150447,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","age-is-nothing-but-a-number","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childhood","childish","childlike","conform","conformity","craziness","crazy","critical","critical-thinking","develop","development","earn","funny","grow","growth","hard-work","herd","herd-mentality","humor","humour","illogical","immature","immaturity","independent-thinker","independent-thinkers","independent-thinking","individual","individuality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","logic","mad","madness","majority","mature","maturity","minority","monkey-banana","mr-follow-follow","nonconformity","original","original-thinker","original-thinkers","original-thought","originality","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","reach-adulthood","reason","sane","sanity","satire","sheep","sheeple","silver-plater","society","standard","think","think-for-yourself","thinker","thinkers","thinking-for-yourself","toil","unreasonable"],"id":155297,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}