nonconformists

• “I'm glad there is some hint of organization among the freethinkers these days - it seems often that the dogmatic collectives have the benefit of organization over us - an organization of 'nonconformists' is a bit of an oxymoron if you think about it.”

  Blevkog

• “The nonconformists have a much stricter set of rules to follow than everyone else.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Herd of Individualists, Wolfman Edition

• “The café -- innocuously tucked in amid the strip malls along Busch Boulevard -- attracts local musicians, poets and political nonconformists.”

  The Huffington Post: Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl

• “The café -- innocuously tucked in amid the strip malls along Busch Boulevard -- attracts local musicians, poets and political nonconformists.”

  The Huffington Post: Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl

• “It isn't so much that the novel is short on "satiric bite" as that ultimately it is merely satire, a relatively mild critique of post-9/11 New York under Bloomberg, which has become inhospitable to its misfits and nonconformists.”

  The Reading Experience

• “Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Violence Vanquished

• “Item: his brother is most likely a Catholic, as are his mother, sister, chief mistress (she keeps a prie-Dieu in her bedroom now), and wife, and he is arguing with Parliament over the nonconformists (he is for toleration, bravo!)”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “Now, one of the side-effects of how Mennonite and Amish culture works, is that nonconformists/those who are “too curious” end up eventually being completely shunned and ostracized from the entire community.”

  Blocking the information highway

• “Bern Alternative Russia With 200 works by 46 contemporary Russian artists spanning nearly four decades, "Passion and Painting: Russian Art since 1970" looks at the motivations and provocations of the country's nonconformists.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What's On Around Europe

• “Although he calls them "nonconformists," he concludes that in important ways they epitomize tradition: Firm believers in the values that undergird a system they hold dear, whether it be a society or a code of professional ethics, they abhor the notion of crime committed in its name.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Risky Is Right

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