Quotes About Nonconformity

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)

If you hear a different drummer, don't march—dance!

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

Follow your own weird.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.""You call that freedom?""To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.