Nonconformist Quotes

#1. I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

Anne Waldman

#2. It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

#3. My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend, and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

Vivien Leigh

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

James Thurber

#5. To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

George Will

#7. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Nick Offerman

#10. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

Eric Hoffer

#11. Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

Austen Chamberlain

#12. The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Eric Hoffer

#14. The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

William S. Burroughs

#15. The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.

Lesslie Newbigin

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

Nicole Kidman

#17. Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

Stephen Eric Bronner

#18. Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

J.B. Priestley

#19. We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.

Jon Ronson

#20. And one of our vocabulary words was nonconformist. I just dug that word. I heard the explanation, the definition, and I felt like I had just learned about a new hero in a kick-ass Marvel comic book.

Nick Offerman

#21. If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Bill Vaughan

#22. Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

William S. Burroughs

#24. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

Gena Showalter

#25. 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.

Donna Lynn Hope

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

Michael Bassey Johnson

#27. I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

Albert Camus

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

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

J.R. Rim