Quotes About Nonconformity

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

Be different.. be yourself.

It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"!

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist's valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn't care what other people thought of me.

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

many of the great spiritual explorers were often viewed as rebels in their time. They did not blindly follow the prevailing religious beliefs and traditions of their day. Instead, they pursued personal spiritual experience.

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

Second.—The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

the right to be naked and not to be ruled by Mrs. Grundy deserves financial support from anyone who believes in freedom.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Normal? Hateful word, normal. No meaning whatsoever.

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.

We do not punish the leopard for its wildness.

Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. The hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Stop making sense

quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)