78 Quotes About Nonconformity

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

I dare say a good many... would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief, but I'm afraid I'm not much good at that.

Creation from chaos is natural. We've come to a place where we've realized that we have this actual physical need to create things. We've discovered that we hate people en masse, we're sick of homogenized culture, and these realizations have left holes in our hearts. We create to fill those holes, to be able to sleep at night knowing we've done something, even a small something, to confront the manufactured culture that is currently being churned out.

-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!