Quotes About Nonconformity

Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

could it be said of her that she had been promiscuous? No, that could not be said of her. For she had been as free as air, and one does not qualify the general atmosphere with such a paltry adjective as "promiscuous." She had just slept with everybody—with white, black, yellow, pink, green, or purple—but she had never been promiscuous.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.

when the rules don't work, you break 'em.

Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own path and lived to fulfill their potential. This type of person was as representative of human nature as any mindless conformist.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.

Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?

Had Ken Kesey opened Electric Kool-Aid stands on every college campus in the country, it would have made a lesser contribution than Life to the creation of that era of unprecedented foment we like to call "the sixties.

Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. Why, when everyone else was fascinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. I've never been attracted to men. Or women. Or anything else. It's difficult to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite.

Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.

Courage is the one who lives the life that he or she wants to live, regardless of what everyone else is doing. A coward is one who lives life, never stepping away from the group or challenging the norms of society.

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

I've always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect.

My identity was straightforward: I had made art since I was five years old, and aside from dance, art was the only thing that interested me. If that didn't fit into the conventions of the day, who cared?