Nonconformist Quotes - Page 2

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

  Gilbert Seldes

  Mind, Lasts, Comedy

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• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

  James Thurber

  Investing, Non Conformist, Nonconformity

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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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• People would rather be wrong than be different.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Inspiration, People, Being Different

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Religious, Lying, Justice

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Moving, Majority

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• One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

  George Will

  Free Spirit, Spirit, Radical

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• Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.

  Isa Genzken

  Art, Strong, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Scratches

  "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 321), 1940.

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• A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Progress, Rebel

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• Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.

  Steve House

  Live Life, Skills, Names

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

  Nick Offerman

  Teacher, Vocabulary, Hands

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Swings, Scorpios

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• Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

  William S. Burroughs

  Generations, Outcast, Beats

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• Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Children, Teenager, Book

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• He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, People

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.20, Spectra

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• To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Be A Man

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• The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Rebel, Republic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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• I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Cities, Parent

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Realization, Safe

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• Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fashion, Bullying, Prayer

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