Quotes About Nonconformity

Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.

Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision.

Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted

In spite of this prevailing tendency to conform, we as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists. The Apostle Paul, who knew the inner realities of the Christian faith, counseled, "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability. We are commanded to live differently and according to a higher loyalty.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Ah what harm? Do what you want and feck everybody else is Johnnypateenmichael's motto.

Was die Herde am meisten hasst, ist derjenige, der anders denkt; es ist nicht so sehr die Meinung selbst, sondern die Kühnheit, selbst denken zu wollen.

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to

But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Did it ever occur to you, asked Kira, that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to learn a work I like only because I like it?

I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do? No. But that's...that's monstrous. Is it? Probably. I couldn't say.

The thinking child seeks equals; the conformist seeks protectors.

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

countercantabrigianism.

A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.

In a don't-give-a-fuck world, he is about to become the ultimate don't-give-a-fucker.