#conformist

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creativity #different #individuality #non-conformist #art

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

#anything #conform #conformist #hates #nonconformist

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. ↗

— Bill Maher

#country #free #more #more people #need

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Ayn Rand

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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. ↗

— Karel Reisz

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I am a believer and a conformist. ↗

— Georges Rouault

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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

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

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