Conformist Society Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

Nathan Wolfe

#4. 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

#5. The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. The best writing is when one writes from the soul

Ndiritu Wahome

#7. Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Vivian Amis

#8. 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

#9. A good relationship isn't all about what you get from it but; how much of your time you put into it".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#10. Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

Alan Seeger

#11. And so the pair of them went on in the big, draughty house, with the carriages rushing in the square beyond, irritating each other as only two people who are united by blood and detached by temperament can do.

D.J. Taylor

#12. 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 the conformists.

Margaret Mead

#13. The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract ... We got it worked out got it hammered out.

Ron Hargrave

#14. Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

Norman Vincent Peale

#15. I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

Jerry Trainor

#16. As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

John Feldmann

#17. Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you're about to die.

Sarah Noffke

#18. Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Wayne W. Dyer

#19. Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

Aberjhani