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
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
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
“-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
“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
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel 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
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
“In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
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
I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
