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Nonconformity Quotes

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
John Stuart Mill
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts"
Larry Ellison
"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable"
Larry Ellison
"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"
Charles Darwin
"I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be"
Joaquin Phoenix
"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself"
Peter Thiel
"Of two evils, choose neither."
Charles Spurgeon
"You are remembered for the rules you break"
Douglas MacArthur
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Bertrand Russell
"Some may never live but the crazy never die"
Hunter S. Thompson
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say"
Ingrid Bergman
"Resist much, obey little"
Walt Whitman
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune."
Noam Chomsky
"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."
George Carlin
"Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius "
William Blake
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