Quotes About Nonconformity

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

My policy is to have no policy.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

An architect intent on being different may in the end prove as troubling as an over-imaginative pilot or doctor.

Des mots tordus, des mots décousus, des mots sans queue ni tête, j'écrirais comme les mots me viendraient, je commencerais maladroitement et je finirais maladroitement comme j'avais commencé, je m'en foutrais de la raison pure, de la méthode, de la phonétique, de la prose (...), ça serait alors l'écriture ou la vie. [Verre Cassé, p. 198]

Never at my best when at my best behaviour.

Independent souls find aliveness more attractive than social approval.

THE MYTH: Being a misfit is a defect you must correct. THE REALITY: Your nonconformity is your pathway to fulfillment.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.