Social Nonconformity Quotes

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

Yeah, I've never tailgated.

He frequents the company of antisocials with whom he exchanges mutual negative influences, he has rude opinions about the revolutionary process, he ignores official warnings, he is provocative, and he disrespects the norms of social coexistence.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

I've always been like a black hippie.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and it said, 'Someone that doesn't appeal to society, someone who doesn't fit in.' We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.