Quotes About Nonconformity

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

Colui che segue la folla non andrà mai più lontano della folla. Colui che va da solo sarà più probabile che si troverà in luoghi dove nessuno è mai arrivato...

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.

There was something called liberalism (...) Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

No te gustaría tener la libertad de ser feliz... de otra manera? A tu modo, por ejemplo; no a la manera de todos.

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.

Hubo discursos sobre la libertad, a propósito de ello. Libertad para ser consciente y desgraciado. Libertad para ser una clavija redonda en un agujero cuadrado.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

The key of joy is disobedience.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

Decididamente -pensaba- no he nacido para ser lo que hoy se entiende por un buen ciudadano…

Novecento, tutto questo è assolutamente contrario al regolamento. Novecento smise di suonare. Era un ragazzino di poche parole e di grande capacità di apprendimento. Guardò con dolcezza il comandante e disse: In culo il regolamento.

She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.

We are not polyester people.

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

In retrospect, the reason for her decision seems evident. Our Noriko, for so many years troubled by the demands of society on one hand and the needs of the self on the other, finally decided. She would do what she wanted. And she did. All attempts to lure her out over the years have been rebuffed. When a documentary was made on Ozu, she refused to appear, just as, when he died, she did not attend his funeral. Setsuko Hara was her own person at last. On Japanese actress Setsuko Hara

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.