Nonconformism Quotes & Sayings

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed.
The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society - the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the "idols" of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people. — Rollo May

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced. — Andy Warhol

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction. — Jess Walter

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. — William Shakespeare

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity. — James A. Haught

The more one gets the more one wants — Louisa May Alcott

I melted easily into him once again - our homework still lying on the floor forgotten and neither of us seemed too inclined to start it again. Too bad we didn't have a class on physical anatomy together, then maybe we could've passed this off as studying. — Lacey Weatherford

Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd. — Adam M. Grant

That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which hadn't happened yet and might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality.
Quoth Mandarax:
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
- GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS — Kurt Vonnegut

Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion. — Osho

So you killed my father? You killed my bride?" he growled.
"She wasn't even your woman."
Why did everyone feel the need to remind him of that? — Chelsea Fine