Non Conformist Quotes - Page 2

• If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Parent, Ruins

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• Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

  Oliver Stone

  Differences, People, Littles

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• You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

  Eric Hoffer

  Conformity, Clique, Nonconformist

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

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• My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Lines

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• 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.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Self, Style, Rooms

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• Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

  James Thurber

  Investing, Nonconformist, Nonconformity

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• I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.

  Jose James

  Holiday, Artist, Rights

  Source: revive-music.com

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Voice

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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

  Jack L. Chalker

  Uniforms, Ifs, 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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• (...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

  Marlon Brando

  Soul, Knees, Scar

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• The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

  Herman Wouk

  House, Free Spirit, Patterns

  Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone

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• I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

  Rod Serling

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

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