Quotes About Nonconformity

To be original means to distinguish yourself from others. It follows that to be original is to violate the principle of equality.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

We are passing through an unheroic phase of history when the man who has escaped passive conformism and follows the voice of his own conscience is a hero.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing.

A pessimistic orientation does not seek accommodations with the system.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

To be a hero, you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going against the conformity of the group. Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary. Who act.

Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us, especially by those who are less imaginative than ourselves.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

One thing you must put aside in order to fulfill your destiny is conformity.

Penso di essere NATURALMENTE ATTIRATO DALLA GENTE CHE NON SEGUE IL CORSO NATURALE DELLE COSE. Quelli che la società dice di non essere in regola, sono le persone con cui mi sento maggiormente a mio agio. Mi sento più a mio agio quando vado nella parte peggiore delle città e parlo coi senzatetto, che quando sto seduto in qualche ristorante cazzuto con un gruppo di gente incravattata.

Don't follow the Masses, because sometimes the M is silent.

That girl," Skulduggery muttered, "never does what she's bloody well told …

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.