Conformist Quotes

79 Conformist quotes by 68 unique authors

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. — Joyce Brothers
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be… — Robin Cousins
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. — Max Beerbohm
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye… — Louis Kronenberger
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal;… — Bent Larsen
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the… — Deepak Chopra
Only conformists are ever adored. — Catherine Breillat
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one. — Nick Offerman
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists… — Oliver Stone
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. — Paul Vixie
[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 impeccably… — Terry Eagleton
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not… — Charlie Chaplin
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them… — Jung Chang
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and… — Jean Piaget
The problem is that we humans are deep conformists. — Robert Greene
Conformists die, but heretics live forever. — Elbert Hubbard
Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers — Wayne Dyer
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional… — Peter Thiel
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers. — Jim Hightower

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