Famous Nonconformists Quotes & Sayings

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's nothing like being in the moment, even when that moment isn't captured or shared. — Katie Couric

I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well. — Jonah Peretti

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it. — Samuel Goldwyn

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity. — Tom Robbins

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten. — Markus Zusak

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up. — Sam Levenson

Ideals without power are simply words - they can come alive only when reinforced by the capacity to act. Reality is understanding how to wield power, but by itself it doesn't guide you toward the ends to which your power should be put. Realism devoid of an understanding of the ends of power is frequently another word for thugishness, which is ultimately unrealistic. Similarly, idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can be corrected only by a profound understanding of power in its complete sense, while realism uncoupled from principle is frequently incompetence masquerading as tough-mindedness. Realism and idealism are not alternatives but necessary complements. Neither can serve as a principle for foreign policy by itself. — George Friedman

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! — Walter Scott

Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big-and takes on that damned capital C-they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths. — David Gerrold