Quotes About Nonconformity

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

I like writing about what I saw and not what I was supposed to see.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

Gyerekfejjel Joan meg én külön világot teremtettünk magunknak, szembeszegülve azzal, amit most feln?ttként lelki szegénységnek nevezek. A lelki szegények szüntelen gyanakvással tekintenek mindenre, ami eltér az átlagtól, ismeretlen vagy nem általánosan elfogadott; azontúl minden, ami nem jár gyakorlati haszonnal, ugyancsak elvetend? a szemükben.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell

One, two, three, four, we don't want your fuckin' laws of thermodynamics!

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

Rules don't apply here," laughed Lisa. "Dennis, you can be whoever you want to be!" 9

I found him very sexy because I love difference. An unbearably handsome face bores me unless something beneath it surface is crooked or askew: even a broken nose or one eye slightly higher than the other, or something psychological, something unfamiliar and maybe even suspect.

Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

Question authority... Then ignore it!

Life is more interesting when you colour outside the lines

I don't care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.

How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?