Nonconformity Quotes

"Never follow the crowd." "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it" "Do not go with the flow. Be the flow." "I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness." "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth" "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively" "Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you the edge" "I think everybody is weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it." "Luckily, I have no plans. I don't feel like I need to follow a certain path, because things always turn out differently anyway." "I don't care about what people think because people don't think." "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists." "I’ve been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause." "The creative person, by necessity, must come to be at odds with the majority" "There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do" "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer" "If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely screwy." "Innovation never comes from the established institutions." "Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly"