Quotes About Nonconformity

As to wearing the badge of a party, either in politics or religion, I may say that never in my life was I so far from coveting such a thing. And then poetry breathes in another outer air. And then there is not an existent set of any-kind-of-politics I could agree with if I tried —

For one thing, while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools.

Sometimes it helps to remind them you're not a drone.

She was what she was. She did what she did. I didn't think she worried about the whys and wherefores too much, come to think of it.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?

Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things.

There was an instructive contrast between the fate of Judea and the fortunes of more accommodating communities. Cooperation might bring all manner of benefits, from protection against attack to the amassing of individual fortune; nonconformity would be put down with brutal and uncompromising rigour. In the 130s the implicit was made explicit and the Jews became an object lesson in the price of disobedience.

Hoot, Johnie Rousseau mon, what for hae ye sae mony figmangairies? You're a bonny man indeed to mauk siccan a wark; set ye up. Canna ye just live like ither fowk?

He could think nothing and do nothing after the common fashion of the world; even when he "went wrong," he did so in a highly unusual and eccentric manner.

Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.

On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.

Una de las ventajas que los animales poseemos sobre los humanos es que nadie nos exige ser políticamente correctos.

Ah, bien dicho, señor. Un libertino ocupa el lugar social que otros muchos hombres no se atreven o no pueden ocupar... Les falta, o nos falta, lo que hay que tener.

Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring ,so I go back to being me.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Why should I care what other people think or me? I am who I am and that's who I wanna be.

Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

I am a rank individualist.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.