Quotes About Nonconformity

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Yaln?zl?k bir ba?lamda dürüstlüktür. Dürüstlükle kendinizi genel kitleden ay?r?r, konformizmden kurtulursunuz.

The Creative Artist and the poet and saint must fight the actual gods of our society—the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success and exploitative power.

Ma i sognatori non erano ben visti; il sogno e la ribellione sono sempre andati a braccetto.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

education snuffs the spirit right out of some people. She'll wind up being an artist or a poet or an actor or a sailor—something that would scare the life out of most folks

No me importa lo que puedan opinar. No tengo interés en verme como me ven los otros. Phillipa Gordon. Ana la de la isla.

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

No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to get a life by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

Maybe I don't like being different, Meg said. but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said, "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don't mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, "agreeableness," they tend to be on the far end of the continuum. They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.