Nonconformity Quotes

64 quotes by 57 authors

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
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People would rather be wrong than be different. — Henry Jacobsen
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian
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
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel
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
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
I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight. — Michael Landon
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
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney
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
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
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill
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
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra

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