Quotes about Nonconformity

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.