Quotes About Nonconformity

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

We just see Happy Mondays as this licence to do what we want right now as much as possible.

In order to live peacefully with one's neighbor, there is nothing better than not having a single postulate in common.

They tell me I should squeeze my hopes into a miniature box of their design. But I'm not so inclined.

Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for harmony with the eternal order ... The Egyptian was free to seek out a place in a benevolent world order, but he was not to disrupt it by either nonconformity or self-abnegation.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

In the world of mules There are no rules.

I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The real things are apt to be deviant.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable