Nonconformist Attitude Quotes

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

I don't care much about conforming.

I'm not much of a conformist.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock sex, using drugs, defying everything decent in society. But that's not freedom, is it? That's not even anarchy. What it is, is simple conformity. That's all it really is.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

I'm not a conformist.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.