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

  • No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

    Jobs   Littles   Faster  
    Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin
  • 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.

    Athlete   Ice   Skating  
    "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.
  • 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.

    Fashion   Kids   Thinking  
    Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books
  • The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

    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
  • 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.

    "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 116), 1952.
  • People would rather be wrong than be different.

  • What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

    Mean   Culture   Critical  
    Source: theanarchistlibrary.org
  • Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

    John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers
  • Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

    Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin
  • Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

  • A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

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

  • 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.

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

    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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

    School   Goes On   Firsts  
    "Dan Savage on 'The Commitment'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2005.
  • People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.

    Source: love-and-pop.com
  • 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.

    Funny   Hater   Witty  
  • Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

    Doe   Woe   Conformity  
    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.
  • A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.

    Believe   Men   Reason  
  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell
  • But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

    Boys   Mind   Fool  
    William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.59, Beacon Press
  • No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

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

  • It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

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