Nonconformity Quotes

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  • Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

    War   Blood   Reputation  
  • Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  • What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

    Tears   Forests   Opinion  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378
  • No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

    Life   Death   Nature  
    Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"
  • 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.

    Fashion   Kids   Thinking  
    Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books
  • Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  • The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

    Life   Education   Money  
    Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press
  • How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America
  • For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

    John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31
  • God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

    God   Apology   Giving  
    Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

    Love   Heart   Compassion  
    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing
  • People would rather be wrong than be different.

  • We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

    Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.172
  • When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.

    Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.10, Seven Stories Press
  • It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

  • All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

    Honesty   Lying   Men  
    "The Boxer," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge over Troubled Water.
  • Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

    George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • 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.

    Art   Philosophy   Rights  
  • Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

    Hope   Spiritual   Giving  
  • 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."

  • A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

  • In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

    Political   Age   Example  
    John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.
  • Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

    Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884
  • Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

    Father   Thinking   Done  
    "The Path of the Law". Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Harvard Law Review, Volume 10, March 25, 1897.
  • It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press
  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell
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