Deviants Quotes

• In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

  William S. Burroughs

  Boredom, Dies

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Groups, Conformity

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• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  George Monbiot

  Odds, Identity, World

  "Sick of this market-driven world? You should be" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Dream, People, Assumption

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• Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Crazy, Stupid, Thinking

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• Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Work, Mean, People

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2002.

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• Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity

  Jenny Holzer

  Groups, Increase, Solidarity

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

  David Lee

  Miscellaneous, Ifs

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• Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.

  Hugo Adam Bedau

  Government, Long, Liberty

  Edwin M. Schur, Hugo Adam Bedau (1974). “Victimless crimes: two sides of a controversy”, Prentice Hall

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• The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

  William C. Brown

  Criminals, Doe, Use

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• Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Interesting, People, Deviance

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• The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Semantics

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.95, Penguin

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• When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.

  Whitney Cummings

  Sex, Women, Writing

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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

  Richard Sennett

  Men, Saws, Dignity

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• Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

  Charles M. Blow

  Love You, Different, World

  "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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• We are totally dysfunctional.” “I prefer ‘selectively deviant’. But we’ll keep that to ourselves.

  Sylvia Day

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.546, Penguin

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• I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.

  Nancy Milford

  Cute, Sweet, Eye

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• A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Growing Up, Children, Army

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• We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Civilization, Intelligence

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

  Robert K. Merton

  Ambition, Vices, Virtue

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

  Hal Duncan

  Christian, Prejudice, Abjection

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• Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.

  Athanasius Kircher

  Philosophy, Labyrinth, Desire

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• The real things are apt to be deviant.

  Osamu Dazai

  Real, Real Things

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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