Conformist Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Fate, Safe, Coincidence

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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

  Robert M. Lindner

  Persistence, Errors, Justice

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• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Thinking, Self

  "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.

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• As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Unlimited Potential, Imagination

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

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Grades, Fourth Grade

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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• Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

  Dallas Willard

  Powerful, Thinking, Intellectual

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.283, InterVarsity Press

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

  Judith M Bardwick

  School, Taught, Conformity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1972). “Readings on the psychology of women”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Tired, Drunk, Smoking

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• Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe — and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes — make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.

  Jubal

  Land, Differences, Personality

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• 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

  Boys, Mind, Fool

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.59, Beacon Press

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

  Georges Rouault

  Belief, Difficult, Believer

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Realization, Safe

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• Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the people who need St. Patty's Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know.

  Julie Klausner

  New Year, Lonely, Sorry

  Julie Klausner (2010). “I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated”, p.161, Penguin

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• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Dog, Blow, Blood

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• Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

  Steve Martin

  Unique, People, Laughing

  "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.

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• The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.

  Paul Tillich

  Bridges, Atmosphere, Enlightenment

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 116), 1952.

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• The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.321, Macmillan

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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

  Billy Corgan

  Looks, Non Conformist

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• Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who didn't mutate never became reptiles; conformist snakes never became mammals , etc. Normal Humans will remain humans, and they'll be subjugated by the digital monsters of the next few millenia.

  Jim Goad

  Real, Snakes, Monsters

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• 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

  Fashion, Crazy, Teenager

  Interview with Olivier Zahm, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Easier

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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