Quotes about Nonconformity

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

customs and habits of men are not a matter for conflict. The saints do not get excited about the things that people eat and drink, wear on their bodies, or hang on the walls of their houses. To make conformity or nonconformity with others in these accidents a matter of life and death is to fill your interior life with confusion and noise. Ignoring all this as indifferent, the humble man takes whatever there is in the world that helps him to find God and leaves the rest aside.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.