Quotes About Contrariness

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

La guerra que un amante odiado declara contra su preferido rival en el corazón de una mujer, sirve la más de las veces para aumentar su prestigio, por esa tendencia hacia la contrariedad, natural a la índole femenil.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

The boys despised everything their elders valued. They scorned beauty and mocked goodness.

L'enfer n'existe pas. S'il y a des damnés c'est qu'il y a des gens qui trouvent toujours le bat qui blesse. Nous avons tous rencontré l'un d'entre eux : l'être perpétuellement contrarié, l'insatisfait chronique. Pourquoi seraient-ils privés de leur passion pour la plainte au moment de mourir ?

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.

disobedience

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.  

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that...Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.

people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't.

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.