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Quotes About Nonconformity

Love is dope, not chicken soup.
~ Tom Robbins
I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
~ Agnes Varda
Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
~ Jim Morrison
All I want is to mess around, and I don't really care about, if you love me, if you hate me, you can't save me, baby baby, all my life I've been good
~ Avril Lavigne
I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn't go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.
~ Gaspard Ulliel
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
~ Orson Welles
I love being a freak. It's great!
~ Brian Molko
I love the lambs, not the sheep.
~ Roger Peyrefitte
I'm an individual, and an individual can't follow and doesn't want to lead.
~ Joni Mitchell
Queer. And not in the way I like.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
And besides, I might be white, but I'm most definitely not vanilla.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Soy diferente. Me gusta ser diferente, quiero ser diferente, verme diferente, sentirme diferente. No quiero que me pongan un número, ni que me den órdenes. No quiero que me anulen, ni formar parte de la masa. Quiero ser yo, porque soy todo lo que tengo.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.
~ José Ingenieros
People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman." -Old Tasio
~ Jose Rizal
El único que tal vez no sea el hombre es el que no se parece a los otros. El que rebasa o no alcanza a los demás. El que crece o se disminuye hasta quedar fuera de las estaturas normales. Ése no, porque pierde la medida cordial de la semejanza.
~ Josefina Vicens
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.
~ Joseph Epstein
I WAS wearing jeans and a slightly grubby polo shirt, partly to remind Koblenz that I wasn't on official Stoddard Associates business. And to let him know I wasn't playing by the rules of the suit-and-tie world. Also because it was more comfortable than a suit.
~ Joseph Finder
I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp ears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound
~ Joseph Roth
I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I like loose clothes, loose company, and loose talk, and to hell with the people who don't.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer
~ Ernst Junger