Conformist Quotes

Conformist Quote of the day

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

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.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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.

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.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

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

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

(...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.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Only conformists are ever adored.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

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.

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.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

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.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

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.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

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

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

I am a believer and a conformist.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

The job is not the work.

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.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

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.