(114 quotes found)
“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."”
Robert Anton Wilson
“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
John Lennon
“Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
Claude Debussy
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.”
William E Bill Vaughan
“The town shouldn't be selling a non-conforming lot.”
John Dill
“The audit review found that all product that was shipped to Japan during the recent export window fully conformed to established export program standards.”
Sean McHugh
“I don't feel conformable approving something just because the county approved it.”
Don Blair
“Allah has revealed the best announcement, a book conformable in its various parts, repeating, whereat do shudder the skins of those who fear their Lord, then their skins and their hearts become pliant to the remembrance of Allah; this is Allah's guidance, He guides with it whom He pleases; and (as for) him whom Allah makes err, there is no guide for him.”
quran
“Mooney is a constant agitator who has resisted the seductions of conformity.”
Terry Gross
“They just make their lives the way they want to make them without having to conform to societal norms, and there's something really cool about that.”
Chris Deaux
