Quotes About Nonconformity

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don't choose not to conform. We don't even notice what the standard we're not conforming to is!

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

In fact I had no such interest, but I knew it was wrong to do things just because other people did. Other people couldn't be the reason why you did anything.

I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.

Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of collective conformity.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.

A person who truly lives in the present not only thinks but also does many things different from others , so obviously finds it often difficult going along well with the people.

A strong person walks solo only and never seen marching with the masses of people.

Better to look a bit weird than to have own beard.