Quotes About Deviance

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.

As a general rule, managers don't like deviants. By definition, deviance from established standards is a failure for a manager working to deliver on spec. So, most of the time, most managers work hard to stamp out deviance (and the deviants who create it).

By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

in a society concerned primarily with process, the notion of deviance might have much less, if any, significance.

The arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

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

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all. This results in a voluntary isolation, or false and treacherous connections. Either way, we do not develop tools for using human difference as a springboard for creative change within our lives. We speak not of human difference, but of human deviance.

If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal.

Beside the end rack there was a storage cabinet which Oleg swung open to reveal awkward stacks of audio tapes, each one carefully labelled. "I am all-seeing eye," he announced proudly. "What kind of stuff are you pulling these days?" "What you like? I got marital arguments, I got guerrilla uprisings, I got anarchist lovetalk, I got every auditory sexual deviance you couldn't imagine. I got serious . . . fucking . . . shit.

Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.

In other words, serial killers are, by and large, sexual psychopaths of a particularly depraved variety—deviants who can only achieve orgasmic release by making other people die.

Krafft-Ebing was disposed to regard all cases in which a scatalogical sexual attraction existed as due to latent masochism.

I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong.

It was not because they [Harris and Klebold] were deviants, but rather because they were overconformists to a particular normative construction of masculinity, a construction that defines violence as a legitimate response to a perceived humiliation.

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.

Deviance is woven into the fabric of a person's genes, as is intelligence and moral fortitude. I would ask you how

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

all witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

Creativity implies deviance from past procedure. Habits are consistent with it. Habits often destroy creative ideas before they see the light of day. Habits include conceptual blocks, which not only occur because of the mechanisms of our limited brains but also are imparted by socialization, education, and professional specialization. Creativity requires System 2 thinking and more work for your mind.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Usually, the embrace of deviance comes not because of some innate perversity but because of a preexisting dissatisfaction with the world as it stands acquired through alienating experiences of one sort or another.

It's not just extreme deviance that distinguishes the fantasy life of psychopaths but their overpowering urge to translate their sickest fantasies into fact. The most extravagant erotic daydreams of normal people always run up against what Freud called "the reality principle.