Philip Zimbardo Quotes

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the “scientific” establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

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

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

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.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I don't care much about conforming.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I never quite toed the line.

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

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

Rather be dead than cool.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.