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Quotes About Deviation

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
~ J. C. Ryle
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
~ Frank Zappa
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
~ Philip Zimbardo
I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.
~ Gary Moore
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
~ Rudyard Kipling
In Europe one generally has the tendency to exaggerate the importance of Buddhism, which is certainly the least interesting of all the Eastern doctrines, but which precisely because it constitutes a deviation and anomaly for the East can seem more accessible to the Western mentality and less foreign to its customary forms of thinking.
~ Rene Guenon
that which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.
~ Ken Wilber
Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.
~ David S. Landes
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.
~ Freddie Gibbs
Adrian, we hashed this out! Everything's gone perfectly until now. Why would you even think about deviating from the plan?' 'Um, because that's how we roll?
~ Richelle Mead
That which is above all to be shunned," said the philosopher, "is the encroachment of discouragement, the result of repeated failures. "Rare are those who wish to admit their mistakes. "In the structure of the mind, inaccuracy brings a partial deviation from the truth, and it does not take long for this slight error to generalize itself, if not corrected by its natural reformer — common sense.
~ Yoritomo-Tashi
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
~ Denis Diderot
la iglesia ha dejado de tomar su guía de las Escrituras y se ha desviado a las consultorías de mercadeo y emplean tácticas de negocios del mundo.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors.
~ Eric Hoffer
Der Anpassungstheorie liegen folgende Annahmen zugrunde: 1. Jede Gesellschaft als soche ist normal; 2. seelisch krann ist, wer von dem von der Gesellschaft favorisierten Persönlichkeitstyp abweicht; 3. das Gesundheitswesen im Bereich von Psychiatrie udn Psychotherapie verfolgt das Ziel, den einzelnen auf das Niveau des Durchschnittschmenschen zu bringen, unabhängig davon, ob dieser blind ist oder nicht blind.
~ Erich Fromm
I am well aware that for some, love and passion do not always follow the traditional path
~ Amanda Quick
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
~ Anatole France
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
~ Joey Skaggs
In deviation from the historic pattern of Russian autocracy, the Soviet Russian state arose as a novel form of party rule.
~ Robert C. Tucker
It was the Lenin of kto kogo? As Stalin put it in his speech to the Central Committee plenum of April 1929, when he branded Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky as the leaders of the "Right deviation" in the party, "The situation is that we live according to Lenin's formula of 'kto kogo': either we shall pin them, the capitalists, to the ground and give them, as Lenin expressed it, final decisive battle, or they will pin our shoulders to the ground.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.
~ Desmond Morris