Non Conformist Quotes

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

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

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

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.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

People would rather be wrong than be different.

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.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.

Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.