I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I've always been a nonconformist. I think that nonconformity is part of the American DNA. — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“her choice to be, not only a poet but a woman who explored her own mind, without any of the guidelines of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Creation from chaos is natural. We've come to a place where we've realized that we have this actual physical need to create… — Renee Rigdon Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
“The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which… — The Buddha Copy Share Image
“The simplistic way of not conforming is to see what is in style in our culture and then do the opposite. If… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“I was aware that he was laughing at me, but I told myself I didn't care what other people thought and would… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
