Best 19 quotes in «nonconformist quotes» category

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

As a youth, I was too sunny and filled with the milk of human kindness to be able to comprehend such a bitter moral to the story. I just thought it meant Dalton did not need the approval of his peers, that he was a nonconformist (as was I, and all of my generation. We were nonconformists together, in perfect lockstep, each careful to be a nonconformist exactly like all the others). Like I said, I did not get it.

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Things such as cigarettes give conformity the ability to cause cancer.

I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class. I've lived all over the country, but my roots, views and attitude are very Midwestern. I was born in the Heartland, where there exists a true melting pot of religions, classes and cultures.

Satisfaction is reserved for the Nonconformist.

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!" We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.