Quotes About Nonconformity

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

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

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.