Lorenzo di Bonaventura Quotes

I am a contrarian.

I have contrarian tendencies.

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.

I like being unconventional.

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

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

I disagree that I'm on the wrong side. I'm just not on your side.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

I was always a contrarian.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.