Top 57 The Conformist Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.
Yony Leyser
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The deviant and the conformist ... are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
Kai Theodor Erikson
#8. The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty
#9. How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
Robert M. Lindner
#10. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
Karel Reisz
#17. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
#18. 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
#19. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
#20. School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Dan Savage
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.
Kenny Smith
#28. Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs on the government, and so developing an economic interest in profession and teaching a statist, pro-government, and socialist ideology.
Henry Hazlitt
#29. Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Donald Tusk
#31. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
Immortal Technique
#32. 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. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.
Haruki Murakami
#33. the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.
John Shirley
#35. I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.
Nick Offerman
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.
Jack L. Chalker
#39. 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
#40. ( ... 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Wayne W. Dyer
#44. 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
#45. Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?
Billy Corgan
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
Margaret Heffernan
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
Thomas Sowell
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