Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
