Top 55 A Conformist Quotes
#1. As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
Gloria Steinem
#2. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
#3. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
Immortal Technique
#4. 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; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
Bent Larsen
#5. A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
Thalia
#6. Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!
Mark Driscoll
#7. I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
Georges Rouault
#8. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. 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 because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.
Ayn Rand
#10. A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
Philip Treacy
#12. I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#13. 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
#14. While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.
Vivaan Shah
#16. Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it
Paul A. Vixie
#17. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
#18. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...
Victor Papanek
#19. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Charlie Chaplin
#21. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
Robert Wyatt
#22. 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
#23. 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 live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.
Anne Roiphe
#24. Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
Eric Hoffer
#25. CRIP: I'm a non-conformist, and nothing's ever easy for me.
Scott Hildreth
#26. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
#27. 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 had.
Robin Cousins
#28. I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
Ricky Martin
#30. The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.
Kenny Smith
#31. Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs on the government, and so developing an economic interest in profession and teaching a statist, pro-government, and socialist ideology.
Henry Hazlitt
#32. 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
#33. No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.
Haruki Murakami
#34. the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.
John Shirley
#36. I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.
Yony Leyser
#37. Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.
Jeannette Walls
#38. 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 by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#39. The inadequacy of unidimensional plotting along a continuum (in this case the diagonal of a symmetric matrix) inevitably would make "buffer" elements appear non-conformist when in fact they may be part of an interconnected pattern.
Jennifer K. McArthur
#40. My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
Peter C. Doherty
#41. I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#42. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
#43. You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.
Jack L. Chalker
#44. ( ... 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 few scars on my soul.
Marlon Brando
#45. Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.
Eduardo Galeano
#46. Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Wayne W. Dyer
#47. The intellectual world is deeply conformist ... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.
Noam Chomsky
#48. Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries
escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky
usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins
Joanne Harris
#49. Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.
Tanya Luhrmann
#50. We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
Jon Ronson
#51. 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 on what is in the wind.
Louis Kronenberger
#53. It's strange, isn't it? No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy.
Haruki Murakami
#54. all reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Only a few unreasonable ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. All progress in the world depends on these unreasonable men and their innovative and often non-conformist actions.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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