Conformist Quotes

79 quotes by 68 authors

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. — Colin Wilson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. — Herman Wouk
(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i donâ€™t! i got a scar hereâ€¦and uh i got a scar on my kneeâ€¦and uh a… — Marlon Brando
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not… — Rod Serling
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… — Alain de Botton
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 in their own… — Richelle Mead
Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look? — Thomas Sowell
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Wayne Dyer
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true… — Ayn Rand
Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate. — J.A. Redmerski
Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate. — J.A. Redmerski
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to… — John Taylor Gatto
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with… — Erich Fromm
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. — Margaret Heffernan
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his… — Bernardo Bertolucci
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. — Karel Reisz
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. — Donald Tusk
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society… — Henry Steele Commager

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