Deviant Quotes

“Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.”

“Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!”

“I don't know who he was," Kavita flat-out states, "but whoever he was he sure did a number on you, didn't he?"Mary leans forward to ensure he would see her deviant stare. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I did a number on him?"Kavita leans in closer as well, and with that same deviant expression, "Yes. I have.”

“The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.”

“Eradication of pain, "deviant", or "oppositional" behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.”

“Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.”

“Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.”

“The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.”

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.”

“Baz arched an elegant brow. "Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.”