Top 35 Non Conformism Quotes
#1. Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
Robert M. Lindner
#2. Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#3. 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 difference.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#4. Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
#5. Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
Tony Blair
#6. For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
Rebecca West
#7. Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
Igor Stravinsky
#10. We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#11. Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.
Erin O'Connor
#12. Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. Who has not experienced this conflict?
John Ralston Saul
#13. People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
John Waters
#14. Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
Noam Chomsky
#15. Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Rollo May
#16. Three words were scrawled in black ink at the bottom of the page: Find the necklace.
Lindsay Marie Miller
#17. The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
Ray Bradbury
#18. Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. 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
#20. Mass communication
wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued
presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
Rollo May
#21. It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
Elie Wiesel
#22. He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
Diana Gabaldon
#23. National Socialism brought dream and conformism together into something satanic. Each
Milton Sanford Mayer
#24. Shipwreck? Snow Job? I know. Firefly. I sort of feel a connection to him. Can't explain it.
Richard Castle
#25. I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
Duncan Sheik
#26. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
Germaine Greer
#28. In regard to the law of the state - that is, the accumulated power of society as monopolized by the state - there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society.
Hannah Arendt
#29. Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.
Russell Smith
#30. Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.
Pope Pius XII
#31. A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?
Jodi Picoult
#32. Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Voltaire
#34. Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.
Steve Maraboli
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