It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except…

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to…

— John Cameron Mitchell

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say…

— Elie Wiesel

“Yeah,” Robertson nodded grimly. “It’s the whole problem, isn’t it? People just doing their jobs.”

— Krzysztof Pacyński

I make no concessions to conformism.

— Emmanuel Macron

“Some killed from murderous conviction. But many others who killed were just afraid to stand out. other forces were at work besides conformism. But…

— Timothy Snyder

“Institutions are “stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior,” as Huntington put it, the most important function of which is to facilitate collective action. Without…

— Anonymous

“The private realm of the household was the sphere where the necessities of life, of individual survival as well as of continuity of the…

— Hannah Arendt

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history;…

— Arthur Koestler

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of…

— Erin O'Connor

“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all…

— Edward Luce

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern…

— Paul Tillich