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Quotes About Non-conformists

We see ourselves as non-conformists but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look," were saying, "we're normal. This is the average." We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.
~ Jon Ronson
There is every reason to believe that sceptics and non-conformists exist in every human society; what varies is how others react to them.
~ David Graeber
In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.
~ Margaret Mead
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
~ Herman Wouk
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.
~ Oliver Stone