Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
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… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of… — Jose James Copy Share Image
(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image