Top 59 Quotes About Nonconformity
#1. All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.
Ben Shahn
#2. Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
Walter Isaacson
#3. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
#5. 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
#6. Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
William H. Whyte
#7. Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream.
David Miller
#8. The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
Pico Iyer
#9. Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold
#10. Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.
Richelle Mead
#12. Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#13. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
Sol Luckman
#14. Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
#16. 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
#17. Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human, are always incomplete.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#18. A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
Luis Bunuel
#19. Despite the enormous pressures in Hollywood, Kim Kardashian never set out to fit in, and it's this exact nonconformity that drives our global obsession with her.
Jeetendr Sehdev
#20. The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.
Doan Van Toai
#21. Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
Ben Shahn
#22. Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line,
Ryan Holiday
#23. But I think the Court again heard clearly the simple theme that ennobles our Constitution: that no one shall be made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of nonconformity.
E.B. White
#24. If it hasn't already done so, the church ... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#25. It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
R. H. Tawney
#26. 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
#27. These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness.
Kevin Dutton
#29. We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.
Marty Rubin
#30. 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
#31. Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Boris Pasternak
#32. I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#33. 185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.
Sei Shonagon
#34. Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different
Marty Rubin
#35. There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
Thomas Hardy
#36. Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
Criss Jami
#37. I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
Edward Abbey
#38. Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
Criss Jami
#39. Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#40. Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
I turn my face towards it and I laugh.
Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.
I laugh again.
Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
David Almond
#42. 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
#43. She was a surprise, and let's face it, few people are.
Donna Lynn Hope
#44. 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
#45. Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.
Emile Zola
#46. 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
#47. Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.
Marty Rubin
#49. Your path is yours alone. And if it's the path less traveled, that's absolutely fine. The world doesn't need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search.
Laird Hamilton
#50. If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
James Altucher
#51. 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
#52. He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
Hilary McKay
#53. Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
Michael Pollan
#54. 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
#55. -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
#56. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
Thomas A Kempis
#58. At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Seth Godin
#59. He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.
Chris Matthews
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