Best Nonconformist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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Author:J.R. Rim

“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”

Silence Smoking Gazing Quietness Nonconformist Explanations Inexplicability Nonfconformism

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”

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Author:Pierre Lagrenat

“I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.”

“Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.”

Today Time Waiting Confidence Tomorrow Waste Illusion Deeds Procrastination Day Right Time Days Nonconformist

Book:Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”

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Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.”

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Author:Gena Showwalter

“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Things such as cigarettes give conformity the ability to cause cancer.”

Cancer Smoking Conformity Cigarette Nonconformity Peer Pressure Conformist Nonconformist Fit In Carcinogen

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you follow the herd, don’t be surprised when you step in what they leave behind.”

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Book:Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Apes will talk, and it hardly matters - opinion of the apes is irrelevant in human affairs.”

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Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or a maggot.”

Artist Nonconformist Selfconfidence Friedrich

Book:Friedrich

Source: Friedrich

“Nonconformity is a part of revolution, but it's neither the cause nor the purpose of it.”

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Book:Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

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Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”

Thinking Action Accepting Birth Consequence Misery Prepared Swings Nonconformist Prudes Scorpios

Author:Vivien Leigh

“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.”

Ifs Feels Children Book Home Care Reading Asks Parent Interest Rooms Imagine Style Skills Our Children Breathe Teenager Your Children Pushing Unusual Nurture Quirky Nonconformist

Author:Alexandra Robbins

“Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.”

Long Prayer Fashion Bullying Bent Nonconformist

Author:J. B. Priestley

“When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.”

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Author:Anne Waldman

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

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Book:The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

Source: The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.”

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Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

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

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.”

Spirit Radical Free Spirit Nonconformist

Author:George Will

“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.”

“A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.”

Knows Believe I Believe Progress Offers I Believe In Destructive Rebel Constructive Saying No Conformist Nonconformist

Author:Paul Newman

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.”

Art Artist Strong Nonconformist

Author:Isa Genzken

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“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.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

“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

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“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.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

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Author:Colin Wilson

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

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“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

“He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.”

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Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

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

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”

Men Courage Rich Individuality Realms Conformity Anarchy Heresy Being Different Conformist Nonconformist

Book:Early Lectures: 1838-1842

Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842

“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”

Scratches Nonconformist

Author:Austen Chamberlain

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

“To be a man is to be a nonconformist.”

Men Be A Man Nonconformist

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.”

Generations Beats Theme Outcast Beat Generation Nonconformist Burroughs

Author:William S. Burroughs

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