Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Conformity & Nonconformity.
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
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Conform and be dull.
J. Frank Doble
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
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
John Dryden
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
Henry David Thoreau
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?
David Bohm
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Konda
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin Franklin
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
Emile Henry Gauvreau
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
Ivan Turgenev
