It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther 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
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
I've always been a nonconformist. I think that nonconformity is part of the American DNA. — Stephen Miller 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
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
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
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
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
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
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
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are… — Nellie McKay 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
“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
“Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian 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
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
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
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
