Nonconformist Quotes
20 quotes by 14 authors
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Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
— Austen Chamberlain
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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
— William S. Burroughs
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The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening…
— William S. Burroughs
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I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a…
— Lynn Hill
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
— Nicole Kidman
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Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,…
— Lesslie Newbigin
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The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct -…
— Harry Browne
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
— Albert Einstein
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
— James Thurber
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
— Bill Vaughan
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who…
— Eric Hoffer
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He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the…
— Neal Stephenson
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind
— Gilbert Seldes
Who Wrote These Nonconformist Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 20 Nonconformist Quotes as follows: