Quotes About Fitting In Society

#1. Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

Edward De Bono

#2. Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

Ray Davies

#3. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Pope John XXIII

#4. Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. I said a lot of true things, the most jarring ones I could, because if you say honest things harshly people look at them. And not at you.

E. Jade Lomax

#6. Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

Virginia Woolf

#7. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.

Thatcher C. Nalley

#8. In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#9. Because it was clear to me now that I'd already broken something.

Morgan Matson

#10. Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" - it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

Bryant McGill

#11. One mistake does not define you.

R.J. Palacio

#12. I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

Geoffrey Wood

#13. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

John Stuart Mill

#14. I attribute my wife's language to the fact that she's one-quarter spaniel. She says she's only an eighth, but, come on, the ears say it all. That and her mouth. (The Faithful Setter)

David Sedaris

#15. In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

George J. Mitchell

#16. When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

Leonardo Boff

#17. The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams

#18. Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, What if the world was round?

Jeremy Smith

#19. At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued

Brene Brown

#20. That'll do, Pig. That'll do.

Dick King-Smith

#21. Honestly, if you don't fit in then you're probably doing the right thing.

Lights Poxlietner

#22. The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

David Halberstam

#23. Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long.

Tucker Elliot

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

Robert Musil

#25. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Lois Lowry