Nonconformity Quotes - Page 5

• It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

  R. H. Tawney

  Democracy, Movement

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.232, Verso Books

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• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  Dale Dauten

  Government, Giving, Stubborn

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

  Dee Hock

  Nature, Struggle, Years

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Forests, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

  Thomas Sankara

  Yesterday, Fundamentals, Want

  "Sankara: Un nouveau pouvoir africain" by Jean Ziegler, 1986.

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• Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Individuality

  "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction". Book by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, April 27, 1999.

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• Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Compassion

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• Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

  Richelle Mead

  Fashion, Kids, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books

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• I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Different, May

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book 1, 182.

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• The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

  John W. Gardner

  Business, Men, Cynic

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• Nothing pains some people more than having to think

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.22, Beacon Press

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Beauty, Giving

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• In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are always preaching nonconformity - you know, "I'm just gonna go my own way and be my own man and blah blah blah" - but they're the first ones to do so many things that they have to do. They have to do that hip-hop thing, a certain way of walking, and it's so conformist.

  Nellie McKay

  Rap, Men, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

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• After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we are always loth to don rational clothing; some fixed belief we must have manufactured for us: we are high or low church, of this or that degree of nonconformity, according to the school in which we are brought up-but the agnostic is always rare of us and of late years the critic has been taboo.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Fashion, School, Science

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• There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job".

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• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Patience, Time

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Independent, Vote

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• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stress, Warrior, Effort

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Judgement, Possibility

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Humanity, Aspiration, Human Condition

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• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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