Conformist Quotes

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

Level, Cowardice, Lower

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

Success, Business, Real

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

Another, Worse, Hates

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

Rain, Accepting, Standing

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

School, Goes, Gender

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

Life, Religion, Same

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.
Robin Cousins

Great, Freedom, Dance

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

Fool, Evil, Around

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

Religion, Getting, Holidays

I am a believer and a conformist.
Georges Rouault

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
Karel Reisz

Cinema, British, Dull

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