Rajneesh Quotes

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

We never want to toe the line.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I could never take orders from anyone.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

It's important to be unconventional.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

I don't take well to rules.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.