Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college - that kind of stuff. And then you have my family - me, my brother, all of my cousins - we're just wretched people.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.