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 | Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 16 likes |
 | Swimming against the current is not stupid, if the waters are flowing toward a waterfall. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 14 likes |
 | A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 13 likes |
 | All great truths begin as blasphemies. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 11 likes |
 | A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 10 likes |
 | Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 10 likes |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
 | He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 8 likes |
| Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 7 likes |
 | One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | You are remembered for the rules you break. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes |
 | Let all of life be an unfettered howl. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 5 likes |
| Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
| Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 4 likes |
 | Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 4 likes |
| I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 4 likes |
| Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
| Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 3 likes |
 | Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 3 likes |
 | I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
 | Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 3 likes |
 | Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 2 likes |
 | Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and off-times disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 2 likes |
 | They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers — just to upset the critics. |
 | Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
| Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy. |
 | The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. |
 | If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else. |
 | The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. |
| At twenty, the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. |
 | I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil. |
 | Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. |
 | If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events! |
 | In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. |
 | I am not strange. I am just not normal. |
 | Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. |
 | Αll children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. |
 | Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
 | The only interesting ideas are heresies. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. |
| One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. |
| In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to be on good terms with its indisputable comforts. |
Latin Quotes
 | I will not serve! Non serviam! (attributed to Lucifer, but originates from the Vulgate [Jeremiah] referring to the rejection of God by the people of Israel) 18 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
 | If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. |
Movie Quotes
 | I refuse to become what you call normal. — from the film Alphaville (1965) 6 likes |
