Quotes About Conformists

#1. Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

Richelle Mead

#2. Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

Thomas Sowell

#3. Your path is yours alone. And if it's the path less traveled, that's absolutely fine. The world doesn't need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search.

Laird Hamilton

#4. We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

Bill Maher

#5. Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

Nolan Bushnell

#6. I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Cees Nooteboom

#7. Only conformists are ever adored.

Catherine Breillat

#8. Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Marshall McLuhan

#9. The least favorite students were the non-conformists who made up their own rules. Teachers tend to discriminate against highly creative students, labeling them as troublemakers. In

Adam M. Grant

#10. The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

Robert Greene

#11. America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Jim Hightower

#12. Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

Louis J. Horvitz

#13. We are the prisoners of our thoughts; we are conformists. We fear new thoughts, new ideas, and new adventures.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Indira Gandhi

#15. Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Elbert Hubbard

#16. You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Abbie Hoffman

#17. Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society ... but for me and no one else, education means making creators ... You have to make inventors, innovators ... not conformists

Jean Piaget

#18. 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

#19. Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Anonymous

#20. We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

Alexandra Stoddard

#21. The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Herman Wouk

#22. antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.

Nikola Tesla

#23. What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all - and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.

Richard Paul Evans

#24. Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

Wayne Dyer

#25. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Michael Crichton

#26. If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

Jung Chang

#27. Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

Billy Corgan

#28. Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!

Steve Martin

#29. That was exactly what happened - the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.

Susan Cain

#30. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

Timothy Snyder

#31. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

Fennel Hudson

#32. Here's a frustrating thing about me: if everyone else is happy, I usually can't stay pissed off. My moods are conformists. It sucks, because sometimes you really want to be angry.

Becky Albertalli

#33. Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

Oliver Stone

#34. 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

#35. They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.

John Fowles