Nonconformism Quotes

“You're a nonconformist.”
“That didn’t used to be a felony.”
“It is now. Live in the world around you.”
― Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

“I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“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 Courage to Create

“Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.”
― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World