Non Conformist Quotes

• He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Innovation

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• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Being Different

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Liberty, Alive

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• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

  Max Beerbohm

  Coward, Conscience, Conformist

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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• People would rather be wrong than be different.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Inspiration, People, Being Different

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

  Indira Gandhi

  Rebel, Pioneers, Designer

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Success, Clever, Work

  "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Color, Giving, Conformity

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• My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sin, Stills, Prodigious

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• A free society cherishes nonconformity.
  It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
  have come many of the great ideas.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ideas, Eccentric, Cherish

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• Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

  Steve Martin

  Unique, People, Laughing

  "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.

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• Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Doe, Woe, Conformity

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 50), 1973.

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• I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Grades, Fourth Grade

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Mind, Lasts, Comedy

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• The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

  Henry Steele Commager

  People, Genius, Conformity

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• If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

  Thomas Sowell

  Tired, Looks, Seeing

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press

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• The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Love Is, Important

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

  Billy Corgan

  Looks, Conformist

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