Maladjusted Quotes

#1. Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

Yasmina Reza

#2. I'm not in love with him. I would never call it that. It's more of a growing fascination with him. He's unlike anyone I've ever known, but he's maladjusted and broken - unpredictable and frightening.

Amy A. Bartol

#3. Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Cornel West

#4. Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted

Martin Luther King

#5. The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Julie Christie

#6. I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

Diablo Cody

#7. These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

Alfred Korzybski

#8. But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.

Cecily McMillan

#12. The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

John Derbyshire

#13. The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Corey Taylor

#14. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

David T. Dellinger

#15. Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

Aswath Damodaran

#16. I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Michael Moore

#17. In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

#18. I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Antonio Tabucchi

#19. That was before I had my coffee. I'm not responsible for any information delivered pre-caffeine.

Irene Hannon

#20. I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

Eve Best

#21. Most who enter the Underworld do not leave, and those who do are irrevocably changed by what they experience.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

Paul Fleischman

#23. But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Margaret Mitchell

#24. Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

Franz Kafka

#25. I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

George Eliot

#26. If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Brad Herzog

#27. I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

Campbell Scott