Non Conformist Quotes

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

    Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin
  • No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • People would rather be wrong than be different.

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

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

  • 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.

    Self   Style   Rooms  
  • 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.

    Funny   Hater   Witty  
  • 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.

    Doe   Woe   Conformity  
    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.
  • There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

    Funny   Crazy   Silly  
    "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Tired   Mean   Thinking  
  • 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.

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

    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books
  • The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

    Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books
  • Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

  • (...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.

    Soul   Knees   Scar  
  • 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.

    Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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

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

    Sin   Stills   Prodigious  
    "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.
  • Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

    1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.
  • 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.

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

  • 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!

    "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.
  • Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

    Tired   Looks   Seeing  
    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press
  • The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

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

    Mind   Lasts   Comedy  
  • 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.

    Holiday   Artist   Rights  
    Source: revive-music.com
  • 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.

    Block   Teaching   Dark  
  • 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.

    "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.
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