Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as…

— Dallas Willard

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me…

— Jean Piaget

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

— Vivaan Shah

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on…

— V. R. Krishna Iyer

Only conformists are ever adored.

— Catherine Breillat

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

— Henry Steele Commager

The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct…

— Harry Browne

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to…

— Nan Goldin

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

— Philip Treacy

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

— Dorothy Fuldheim

“Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who…

— Jeannette Walls

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

— Judith M Bardwick

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to…

— Paul Tillich

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the…

— Terry Eagleton