Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes

I don't care much about conforming.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I am not a conformist.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

I was anti-conformist.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I just don't conform very well.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

Not many people agree with what I do.