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Nonconformity Quotes & Sayings

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-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer! — Andrew James Pritchard

I am not a number; I am a free man. — Patrick McGoohan

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra

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I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like. — Sei Shonagon

At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ... — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I dare say a good many ... would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief, but I'm afraid I'm not much good at that. — Richard Adams

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd. — Marty Rubin

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one. — Jerry Spinelli

There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him. — Thomas Hardy

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual. — Marty Rubin

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different — Marty Rubin

She was a surprise, and let's face it, few people are. — Donna Lynn Hope

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. — Boris Pasternak

Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured. — Walter Isaacson

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will. — James Altucher

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists. — Doan Van Toai

Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line, — Ryan Holiday

Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream. — David Miller

How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness? — Lori Duron

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk. — William Landay

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning. — Ka Chinery

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in. — Emile Zola

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand. — Hilary McKay

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn

Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise. — Lisa Kleypas

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. — Criss Jami

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media. — Criss Jami

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel

Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself. — Amy Leigh Mercree

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs. — Thomas Bernhard