Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Pauline Phillips
Kin Hubbard
Jack Kerouac
John Locke
John Ruskin
Francois Rabelais
All authors
Today's birthdays
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev
1817 - Benjamin Jowett
1892 - Corrie Ten Boom
1920 - Thomas Szasz
1469 - Guru Nanak
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Mathematician
Inventor
Astronaut
Clergyman
Activist
Businessman
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Conformist Quotes
Conformist Quotes
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
Cowardice
Than
Conformist
Lower
Fashionable
Level
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
Man
Rain
Miseries
Disasters
Accepting
Cow
Stoicism
Conformist
Average
Average Man
Standing
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
Worse
Hates
Prevailing
Another
Than
Anything
Conform
Conformist
Standard
Who
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Success
Business
Achieve
Rich
Lasting
Possibly
No-One
Real
Get
Any
Being
Conformist
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
Love
Balance
Other
Finds
Idealist
Conformist
Social
Cynic
Help
Rebel
Each
Lives
Butterfly
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
Me
Pride
Made
First
Francis
Spielberg
Martin
Martin Scorsese
Almost
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Always
Proud
Scorsese
Modern
Influence
Blushing
Conformist
Coppola
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Dan Savage
School
Gender
First
Kindergarten
Very
Goes
Conforming
Conformist
Preschool
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
Survival
Seen
Doctors
Way
City
Only
Idea
Talking
Self-Knowledge
Traditional
Cure
Cured
Same
Psychoanalysis
Suburban
Conformist
Urban
Agony
Novel
Found
Nowhere
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
Jonathan Franzen
People
Feeling
Think
Both
Shame
Vast
Simply
Underneath
Quantities
Cultures
Conform
Conformist
Conformity
Produce
Who
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
Great Deal
Seen
Rigid
Had
Deal
Form
Ice
Skating
Conformist
Should
Figure
Figure Skating
Originality
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
Thalia
People
Musical
Rap
Find
Like
Sing
Singers
Genre
Stick
Rock
Ballads
Lot
Being
Conformist
When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.
Trevor Paglen
Democracy
People
Positions
Kind
Willing
Constantly
More
Take
Mass
Understand
Up
Controversial
Conformist
Conformity
Less
Incompatible
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Too Much
Thinking
Too
Consumers
Consuming
Nobody
Stuff
Been
Up
Trained
Conformist
Far
Much
Sucking
No more conformist quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Always
Full