Top 70 Non Conformist Sayings
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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. 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
#6. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Charlie Chaplin
#7. Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
Eric Hoffer
#8. CRIP: I'm a non-conformist, and nothing's ever easy for me.
Scott Hildreth
#9. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
#11. Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
Thomas Sowell
#12. 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
#13. I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.
Nick Offerman
#14. Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Wayne W. Dyer
#15. ( ... 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
#16. You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.
Jack L. Chalker
#17. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
#18. 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
#19. The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Joyce Brothers
#20. Conformist intellectuals, the ones who support official aims and ignore or rationalize official crimes, are honored and privileged in their own societies, while the value-oriented are punished in one way or another. The
Noam Chomsky
#21. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
Karel Reisz
#23. 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
#24. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
#25. I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.
Clemence Poesy
#26. 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
#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. School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Dan Savage
#31. 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
#33. Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Judith M Bardwick
#34. I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
Georges Rouault
#35. What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.
Rabih Alameddine
#40. America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
Jim Hightower
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
Jon Ronson
#46. 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
#47. It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
Elie Wiesel
#48. 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
#49. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?
Billy Corgan
#56. 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
#57. The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
Margaret Heffernan
#58. A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
Robert M. Lindner
#60. While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.
Vivaan Shah
#61. The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The deviant and the conformist ... are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
Kai Theodor Erikson
#67. 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
#68. 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 reality there are few left.
Orson Welles
#69. 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
#70. 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
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