Quotes About Nonconformity

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

My parents always did things a little bit differently. My three brothers, my sister and I didn't go to normal public schools - we were home-schooled. We didn't play Little League or other team sports. We were a skateboarding family.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!

you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

The Laws of Human Nature, 14: Resist the Downward Pull of the Group—The Law of Conformity

Embrace Your Weirdness The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. —Coco Chanel

Support a few crackpots, heretics, and dreamers, especially if they are wildly optimistic about their ideas.

His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.

Here she was, stretched out on her back on a concrete bench, reading a book. It was The fountainhead , that noxious piece of crap that was then enjoying a certain vogue.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.

All too often, instead of trusting their inner wisdom, that genius inside, most people follow the crowd.

If you do what the masses do, you get the following picture:

I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone. There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.' 'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us.

I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.