For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated… — Shang Yang Copy Share Image
The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of… — Lori Duron Copy Share Image
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!” — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen;… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“People living normal lives are ruffled by folks like Doc and Llama. Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream. Our… — David Miller Copy Share Image
“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal. — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
