When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“Self love will be the immunity from every infectious community that makes you sick of being who you are.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which… — Sarah Grimké Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
“This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be, if you're not accepted for who you are,then that… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I prefer open minds over like minds. Its part of that whole think for yourself thingy that I try to subscribe to. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others… — Catherine Gildiner Copy Share Image
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one… — Michael Landon Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Never give into the world. Do not conform to the worlds expectation of you. Be yourself, do not change a single thing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
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