Ray Bradbury Quotes

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

I just don't conform very well.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

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.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

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

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I make no concessions to conformism.

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.