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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

» Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

» Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his acti

» Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, playwright, writer, historian and philosopher.

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

» James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

» John Dryden (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist and critic

Take the tone of the company you are in.

» Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) British statesman and man of letters

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the o

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

» Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

» Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1889) French social philosopher

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

» Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian writer

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

» John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President of the USA [ Assassinated in Dallas]

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

» Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

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