Non Conformity Quotes

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.