Quotes About Nonconformity

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Normal is boring. Who wants that?

Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.

Nowadays you have to pay a very high price to become a bohemian.

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.

I wish that, if anyone should look for faults in this, then they will find them with me, with me and my queer nature, that set me so at odds with the world and all its ordinary rules, I could not find a place in it to live and be content.

Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.

When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?

She was different to other women, that's why. She hadn't gone all fluttery-eyed on him. Instead, she'd stood up to him, and for some reason that difference meant he'd lost the ability to resist. "Contrary bastard," he muttered to himself.

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

Well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ damn. You're obviously in a mood." "Am I?" There was danger in her tone. "Am I really? Why should that be exceptional? A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command the world mutters darkly about her moods.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck. Tom, I am not everybody.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform — (or pause and reflect).

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should pause and reflect.

Toda vez que você se encontrar do lado da maioria, é hora de parar e refletir.