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Albert Camus
“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

Marshall McLuhan
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend, and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”
― Vivien Leigh

“People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

Gena Showalter
“When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.”
― Gena Showwalter

J.R. Rim
“I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.”
― J.R. Rim

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Jon Ronson
“We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
"Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!"
We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Satisfaction is reserved for the Nonconformist.”
― Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

Abhijit Naskar
“Nonconformity is a part of revolution, but it's neither the cause nor the purpose of it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

Abhijit Naskar
“Society must adapt to diamonds, diamonds don't adapt to society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon.

“As a youth, I was too sunny and filled with the milk of human kindness to be able to comprehend such a bitter moral to the story. I just thought it meant Dalton did not need the approval of his peers, that he was a nonconformist (as was I, and all of my generation. We were nonconformists together, in perfect lockstep, each careful to be a nonconformist exactly like all the others). Like I said, I did not get it.”
― John C Wright

“I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class. I've lived all over the country, but my roots, views and attitude are very Midwestern. I was born in the Heartland, where there exists a true melting pot of religions, classes and cultures.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Things such as cigarettes give conformity the ability to cause cancer.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or a maggot.”
― William Vaughan, Friedrich

Abhijit Naskar
“Apes will talk, and it hardly matters - opinion of the apes is irrelevant in human affairs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”
― PIERRE LAGRENAT

“Society is in trouble when we consider the non-conformist our enemy.”
― Wyatt B Pringle, Jr.