A Quote by Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
American - Writer
September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

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

Ayn Rand

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

Rob Van Dam

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm

People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.

Jim Goad

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Donald Tusk

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Wayne Dyer

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.