Quotes About Nonconformity

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

My tale is one of not being brilliant. I wasn't even trained as an engineer or scientist. I did, however, have the bloody-mindedness not to follow convention, to challenge experts and to ignore Doubting Thomases. I am also someone who is prepared to slog through prototype after prototype searching for the breakthrough. If a slow starter like me could succeed, surely this might encourage others.

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.

When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.

To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

Papers that use queer Theory usually begin by examining an idea, problematizing it in queer (or "queering" or "genderfucking") ways, and eventually concluding that there can be no conclusions.

The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving.

There are no rules that require us to obey rules. If there were, there would have to be a rule for those rules, and so on.

Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

You call me a freak. You say that I'm different and that I don't belong. Well okay. I accept that.

Gender is a choice, not a life sentence!

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

We try to have things both ways. We've always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn't treat us by rule?

I do think that only a very rigid and conforming society could have produced the ideas of an eccentric in the first place.

If you choose to make an nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

If you choose to make a nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again, If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much, But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn…

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.