Quotes About Noncompliance

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

You know what? Who cares what normal is, Simone. Let's protest. From now on we're the anti-normal, anti-average, anti-standard. You can eat when you want to, I'll wear what I want, and we'll die with a packet of chips in our hand and a tablecloth on our head.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

disobedience

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I can only tell you that my surroundings are me. Everything is me, because I have rejected all conventions, the opinion of the world, all its laws. I am not obliged, as you and Jeanne are, to play a social role.

I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He

contravention

disobedience, refusal to work, refusal to answer when spoken to, and a determination not to succeed.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Yeah, I understand. That doesn't mean I'll obey" - Bianka

Rather be dead than cool.

Rather be dead then cool