Conformity

“The more I feel I am being pushed into a mold, the more I feel like going in the opposite direction.”

“The foundation of all violence is always made up of good, harmless people who passively accept it.”

“The struggle between tradition and individual expression is one that takes place in every culture.”

“But to unfit our students for the contemporary world ought in any case to be one of our educational aims.”

““The beauty of being a little bit individual, not copying what was happening overseas.””

“We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”

“I sound like me. But that’s also exactly what they taught us.”

“I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

“Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.”

“I wouldn't label myself anything, certainly not something with an 'ism' or an 'ist' at the end of it.”

“I know it is very unfashionable these days, but I do believe in humanity.”

“He who stoops continuously ends up permanently hunched and dehumanized.”

“Everybody has a script.”

“Los mexicanos obedecemos mayormente por amor, no por poder.”

“I have no art that makes you comfortable.”

““It is not repression in itself which is harmful, but repression under conditions in which it fails to adapt the individual to his environment.””

“Nowadays, art should not be based on technique, nor on beauty, nor comfort.”

“The essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes.”