“A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and… — Robin Cousins Copy Share Image
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally,… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Unshackled by strict yet arbitrary, misguided norms, outcasts can be, look, act, and associate however they want. And in this ever conformist,… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image