Nonconformity Quotes
64 quotes by 57 authors
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,…
— Cecil Beaton
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
— George Washington Carver
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People would rather be wrong than be different.
— Henry Jacobsen
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth…
— Mary McCarthy
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Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
— Ben Shahn
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A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
— Luis Bunuel
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back…
— Thomas Sankara
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently…
— Ezra Stiles
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I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
— Michael Landon
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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
— Edward Witten
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It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
— R. H. Tawney
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He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.
— Shang Yang
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After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
— John Stuart Mill
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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
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The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
— Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Who Wrote These Nonconformity Quotes
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