Conformist Quotes - Page 2

• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

  Max Beerbohm

  Coward, Non Conformist, Conscience

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Innovation

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

  Jack L. Chalker

  Uniforms, Ifs, Non Conformist

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, Doe, Woe

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Doe, Woe, Conformity

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.

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• Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

  Bent Larsen

  Boss, Literature, Chess

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, Philosophy, War

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Responsibility, People

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

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The job is not the work.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs

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

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, People, Coward

  Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.38, Hachette UK

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

  Colin Wilson

  Rain, Men, Average

  "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.

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

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Color, Giving, Conformity

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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• Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Intelligence, Social Behavior, World

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

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ideas, Eccentric, Cherish

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• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Freedom, Anger, Honor

  The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 7 (1963)

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• 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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Eye, Wind, Class

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• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Success, Clever, Work

  "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.

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