Conformist Quotes

79 Conformist quotes by 68 unique authors

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
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 don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…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

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