Best Non Conformist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.”

“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!”

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Author:Steve Martin

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

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Author:Dorothy Fuldheim

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

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Book:The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

“You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

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

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Author:Billy Corgan

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“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.”

“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.”

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

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Author:Ayn Rand

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

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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Author:James Thurber

“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.”

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“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.”

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Book:This is my God: the Jewish way of life

Source: This is my God: the Jewish way of life

“(...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.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“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.”

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Author:Rod Serling

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

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Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

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

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“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 Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”

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Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

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

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

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Book:Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Source: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

“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.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Jung Chang

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

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

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Author:Jack L. Chalker

“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.”

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Author:Tanya Luhrmann

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

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Author:Gilbert Seldes

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

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

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

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“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.”

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

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Author:Eric Hoffer

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