Quotes about Nonconformity

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.