Quotes About Nonconformity

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to