Now Quote by Jo Cox

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

— Howard Jacobson

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our…

— John Updike

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by…

— Herman Wouk

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

— William Hague

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions…

— Robert Redford

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England.…

— Angus Deaton

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

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

— Johnny Flynn

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

— Ian Mckellen

A non-conformist will never feel like he's any part of a clique or a group. And that's the life I signed up for.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I embrace that I'm peculiar and refuse to conform.

— Joey Barton

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist…

— Anne Waldman