Nonconformity Quotes
Nonconformity Quote of the day
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
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.
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.
We are the anarchists your parents warned you about.
How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?
Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.
I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.
...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.
So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.
Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!
Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.
You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.
Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.