Conformist Quotes

79 quotes by 68 authors

Customs, morals â€” is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight,… — Jubal
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of… — Margaret Mead
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other. — Cees Nooteboom
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. — Bill Ayers
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct -… — Harry Browne
I am a believer and a conformist. — Georges Rouault
Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the… — Julie Klausner
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. — Bill Maher
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. — Ayn Rand
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to… — Anne Roiphe
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. — Dan Savage
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured… — Jane Smiley
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In… — Orson Welles
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming… — Vivienne Westwood

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