There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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 contro...
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
I am a believer and a conformist.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The British cinema had been very dull and 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.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
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.
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.
