Conformity

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

“Passer outre la question des identités et de la place qu’on vous assigne. Pour la première fois de ma vie.”

“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.”

“You don’t dance to the tune of the rulers.”

““Leave politics to the politicians; that’s the best way.””

“To disagree silently is disloyal.”

“I don't think any of us are considered 'normal' people.”

“For what would the people think, seeing a Mandarin, one who ought to be dignified, leave his chair to talk to a man dressed like a tramp?”

“มันเป็นที่รัฐบาลหัวโบราณหรือเปล่า!”

“Acquiescence and docility are not potential traits of Arab publics.”

“I think a museum is a bad place to look at art.”

“Whoever submits to our Prophet Muḥammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and believes in him and affirms what he brought of sharia, externally and internally, in belief and in practice, he is then a Muslim, a believer.”

“I like to be myself; I don't want to perform myself.”

“I’m not going to play the games that they play.”