Quotes About Nonconformity

We would much rather be undefined than ordained in traditions that don't fit our curves.

Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.

The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.

The personal aspects of which one is ashamed are often felt to be radically evil. While some things truly are evil and destructive, frequently shadow material is not evil. It is only felt to be so because of the shame attached to it due to its nonconformity with the persona.

Compared to the dog, the wolf is a true symbol of freedom or of those who refused to be spoon-fed.

You must be ready to be called a 'madman' too, another name for genius in our generation.

For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower.

In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy." -Ena

In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation," Ena had added, "those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy.

He is just different. That is all." She looked perplexed, but said, "Different is good. Different is wonderful.

We won't do that," Annie said firmly when we were back downstairs in the kitchen, heating some mushroom soup. "We won't, we won't. If people are shocked, let them be.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

sex, cross-dressing

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care what they think.

I'm not a cat. And I'm not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this.

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.

Don't get me wrong, we're not the fucking Partridge family or anything. We don't all go on picnics and hold hands.

If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you've got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.

My private affairs are no concern of society's. Conventions are only made to be broken. Why shouldn't I have my own way of breaking them?

Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.