Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't get why people are so intrigued with being normal.

Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.

The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully.

a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

His old Shaolin mentor, Ralph, had once said, "Some wolves are not born to the pack.

It's possibly, in the manner of Facino Cane, one more allegory of the novelist: the abuse of the power to enter others' lives, to animate them and tell their stories, leads to disaster. Humans have to be accorded a greater freedom, perhaps, even when that freedom means nonconformity to human definitions of reason and relationship.

To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn't mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

They now advised me to stay at home, take a job and behave myself. Which meant to me, stay at home and be dull and never do a thing you have not seen thousands of others do in the exact same way.