Quotes About Conformism

#1. It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

Elie Wiesel

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Robert M. Lindner

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Germaine Greer

#14. Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#15. National Socialism brought dream and conformism together into something satanic. Each

Milton Sanford Mayer

#16. Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#17. Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Criss Jami

#18. 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

#19. Demetrius appeared

R. Cameron Cooke

#20. I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

Alain Ducasse

#21. I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.

Mie Hansson

#22. I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Margaret Mead

#23. 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

#24. Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Tony Blair

#25. I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.

Agatha Christie

#26. But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

Terence McKenna

#27. Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.

Hanya Yanagihara

#28. All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

Philip K. Dick

#33. I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

Lili Taylor