Quotes About Deviance

#1. It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

Rose McGowan

#2. Not all deviance is negative; without it, we'd never change the world.

Stacy Pershall

#3. Sexual deviance, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, coprophagy, coprolalia, voyeurism - the list was endless.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Sarah Moon

#5. Men: their petulance, their sexual deviance, the way they resorted to violence when they wanted to control

Robert Bryndza

#6. The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

Barton Gellman

#7. Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

Mason Cooley

#8. Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Frank Zappa

#9. The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

Marton Csokas

#10. Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

Thom Yorke

#11. Deviance is in the eye of the beholder

Anonymous

#12. Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

Hal Rothman

#13. Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Hal Duncan

#14. I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#15. Normal is the average of deviance.

Rita Mae Brown

#16. One man's deviance is other man's lunch break.

Jenn Bennett

#17. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

Louise J. Kaplan

#18. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

Max McKeown

#19. Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.

Sheila Jeffreys

#20. You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance.
Brody to Erin.

Lauren Dane

#21. 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

#22. I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

Khalil Greene

#23. Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Mason Cooley

#24. Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Graham Greene

#25. Deviation from the word of God is sentimentality and says 'you're right' to this one, and 'you're right' to that one, and the guy in the middle is an ass-hole.

Milton Rokeach

#26. I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

Charles H. Percy

#27. One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

Graham Greene

#28. You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Ani DiFranco

#29. Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Jay Leno

#30. I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character,

Len Wein

#31. Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Thomas Carlyle

#32. I'm not asking you to buy the milk, O'Flaherty, I just want you to grope the cow.

Abigail Roux

#33. The deviant and the conformist ... are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Kai Theodor Erikson

#34. Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

Graham Greene

#35. Driver's licenses & scholarships for illegals; not amnesty.

Bill Richardson

#36. If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

Gerard Way

#37. What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Buddy Wakefield

#38. I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

Dennis Quaid

#39. The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

William J. Bernstein

#40. Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

George Washington Carver