Non Conformity Quotes - Page 4

• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

  Rumi

  Writing, Thinking, Balls

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• I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

  Paul Krassner

  Self, Individuality, Conformity

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• Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, Doe, Woe

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• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Powerful, Responsibility

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• All art is based on non-conformity.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Conformity, Art Is

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• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

  Rumi

  Wine, Conformity, Existence

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• I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  Simon Boswell

  Littles, Steps, Conformity

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• There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

  Rumi

  Light, Conformity, Grain

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Self, People

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Light, Land

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wish, Inward, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.207, Courier Dover Publications

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• I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

  Tim Burton

  People, Conformity, Wonder

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

  Shirley Brice Heath

  Would Be, World, Definitions

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• In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

  John Stuart Mill

  Order, Break Through, People

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

  Jenna Miscavige Hill

  Children, People, Robots

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Political, Due Process Of Law, Conformity

  "Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (television documentary), 7 Mar. 1954

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• I am myself. That is not enough.

  Sylvia Plath

  Chaos, Conformity, Enough

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

  Julian Assange

  Real, Passion, Conformity

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.22, Canongate Books

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• You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

  Norman Mailer

  Conformity, Tick, Unimportant

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.352, Henry Holt and Company

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• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Order, Humanity

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• Resistance is the secret of joy!

  Alice Walker

  Joy, Secret, Resistance

  Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 8

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