Quotes About Nonconformity

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

There is some shit I shall not eat, and I will not kiss your fucking flag!

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength.

Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.

Later I would know some real workers—heavily tattooed, hair worn in ponytails, motorcycle-riding, manga-reading, and pill-popping—and I realized they were as batty as we were, far from the standardized robots of our fantasies. Americans, rich or poor, were a nation of weirdos.

What is a rebel A man who says no.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

No me interesa lo in, no me obsesiona estar on, no cultivo lo cool, no me fascina lo fashion y mi único must es masturbarme; lo friki me da escalofríos. Lo trendy, temblores.

Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.

Dígalo, dígalo sin miedo; tal como va el mundo todos los que no somos imbéciles necesitamos estar un poco locos.

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.