Conformity Quote by Pat Conroy

“This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why…

— Bill Hicks

“All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere…

— William S. Burroughs

“But more than that, they give nobody else credit for knowing how to laugh, or even how to make up his own mind about…

— Gregory Boyington

“I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over…

— William S. Burroughs

“(I was) slightly suspicious of these babbling children of intellectuals who were themselves babblers, my schoolmates who had already produced the next senile generation…

— Miroslav Krleža

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the…

— Philip Cushman

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

“After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.”

— Chris Hedges