Quotes about Nonconformity

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.