Conformist Quotes - page 2

I am a believer and a conformist. (Georges Rouault)
Modern technology could advance to the point at which social engineers would be true masters of a complete conformist society which could no longer distinguished from a mass concentration camp. We might ultimately be directed by a superstructure of intelligent machines... Revolutionary changes in the next 30 years would be farther-reaching that many over the past 3.000 years. View quote
Fred Polak
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. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The United States represents the reductio ad absurdum of the negative and the most senile aspects of Western civilization. What in Europe exist in diluted form are magnified and concentrated in the United States whereby they are revealed as the symptoms of disintegration and cultural and human regression. The American mentality can only be interpreted as an example of regression, which shows itself in the mental atrophy towards all higher interests and incomprehension of higher sensibility. The American mind has limited horizons, one conscribed to everything which is immediate and simplistic, with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal, basic and leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life. Life itself in American terms is entirely mechanistic. The sense of I in America belongs entirely to the physical level of existence. The typical American neither has spiritual dilemmas nor complications: he is a natural joiner and conformist. View quote
Julius Evola
As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud's book, it evinces "the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.”. View quote
Russell Jacoby
Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of "normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, unthinking, conformist behavior. View quote
Benjamin Barber
The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves. View quote
Czesław Miłosz