Always Quote by Howard Jacobson

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate…

— Jo Cox

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

— Lord Byron

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

— Tony Blair

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted…

— Christopher Bailey

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

— Anonymous

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our…

— David Blunkett

“There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time provides special…

— Anonymous

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy.…

— Anonymous

“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

— Louis Kronenberger