The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes,… — Noam Chomsky 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
I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking… — Bernardo Bertolucci 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
[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
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into… — Deepak Chopra 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
Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever… — Robert Wyatt 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
I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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
“Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions… — Trevor Paglen 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
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
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other… — Joyce Brothers 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 religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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