Quotes About Aberration

The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, it is inexorable, it moves all things at once, and men of discrimination may understand it, predict it, benefit from it.

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.

Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible?

Naming the plane has not been easy. I initially suggested 'The Charles T. Munger.' Charlie countered with 'The Aberration.' We finally settled on 'The Indefensible.

You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.

The guy probably didn't want anything, at least not anything that would make sense to someone with a normal brain. People who did this sort of thing just sort of went bug-fuck. Something in the brain shorted out, blew a fuse, whatever.

By contrast, Andrew Kehoe's appalling deed—an unholy blend of school massacre, terrorist bombing, and suicide attack—was seen not as a symptom of societal breakdown but as a sheer aberration, the singular act of a midwestern madman. As such, it provided the public with a brief frisson of horror before being relegated to obscurity. Decades would pass before its true relevance became clear, as a precursor of our own era's worst nightmares.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration, like an albino. LIke the albino it has no protective coloration. White. That is the color. Those placid, untroubled winter months are different shades of white in my memory, unsullied, and pure. But nature in the temperate zones is bitter towards all things white.

Insanity is my dominant characteristic. - Christina McCall

By any estimate it is certain that nearly half of them were exterminated by the Germans. This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to—or shared with—so many of his German followers.

MY BABY HAS SIX EYES AND BASICALLY NO SKULL

And I realize how faulty were my own perceptions, how clumsily I handled the situation, with what lack of wit and with what ineffectiveness did I deal with Nathan at a moment when supreme delicacy was called for… far from my mind was any idea that Nathan might be disturbed. I thought he was merely being a colossal prick. I regarded Nathan's outburst as a shocking failure of character, a lapse of decency, rather than the product of some aberration of mind.

Justo castigo Un maleficio, eso es. Cuando dos personas se aman y tienen que separarse por culpa de una aberración casi cómica, ¿qué otra cosa puede ser?

As a rule of thumb, performance aberration in a basic skill is a good way to evaluate whether it's natural to a species. When you spot a giant ability gap between ages and genders, you know you're looking at nurture, not nature. Male