Non Conformity Quotes

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  • My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

    William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.31, New Directions Publishing
  • dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

  • I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

    Law   Conformity   Hours  
    Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc
  • No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

    Islands   Doe   Next  
  • There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

  • Is there an existence that is only mine?

    Russell Hoban (2012). “Kleinzeit”, p.134, A&C Black
  • To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  • You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

  • People would rather be wrong than be different.

  • That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

    Religious   Eye   Winning  
    "A Plea for the Open Mind and Free Discussion" (speech), Albany, N.Y., 24 Oct. 1952
  • What is a rebel? A man who says no.

    Men   Rebel   Conformity  
    L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)
  • Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

  • A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  • In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

    Home   Phones   Light  
    Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf
  • How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

    Groups   Want   Opinion  
  • Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

  • In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

  • Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

  • One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

  • He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  • 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  
  • Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

  • When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

  • And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

    Mirrors   Soul   Enemy  
  • Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  • I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.

  • All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

    Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press
  • Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

    Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
  • ... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

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