For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
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
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
“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
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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 human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra 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 fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement. — Jared Leto 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
I've always been a nonconformist. I think that nonconformity is part of the American DNA. — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
