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I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow ... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself.
iconoclastically.
It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.
Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
Not easily placated
by outdated
platitudes
used to soothe
or mask
the obtuse.
Take your nonsenses-
leave.
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
To me, you're either an activist or an inactivist.
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.
countercantabrigianism.
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
An individualist - a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own - may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.
Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.
Nonjudging is neutrally noticing your own internal states.
An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.
Conformity is deformity
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
I don't want to be lumped into any categories.
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.
I don't like overt traditionalism.
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.
If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
nihilistic - but
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
I am a believer and a conformist.
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Adherent:
Someone who will believe anything except what he should.
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.
Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?
I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.
Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.
A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.
Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.
I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people's lives.
A rebel without a clue.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.
TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.
The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not-- Amit Abraham
I'm a political conservative.
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that ... everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.
Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.
Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
Go too far outside "the box," of course, and you will encounter a vernacular that is much less "tolerant." Here, the key words are "fanatic," "troublemaker," "misfit" or "malcontent.
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Don't try to define me