The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.
In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are always preaching nonconformity - you know, "I'm just gonna go my own way and be my own man and blah blah blah" - but they're the first ones to do so many things that they have to do. They have to do that hip-hop thing, a certain way of walking, and it's so conformist.
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
After all, we scientific workers. . . like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we are always loth to don rational clothing; some fixed belief we must have manufactured for us: we are high or low church, of this or that degree of nonconformity, according to the school in which we are brought up-but the agnostic is always rare of us and of late years the critic has been taboo.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
