quotes about Deviance

last updated: November 28, 2023

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.
-- Hal Rothman

Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Routledge

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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

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.
-- Rose McGowan

Source : FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 23, 2013

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“Nothing ever happened except God.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1990). “Minor Characters”, Washington Square Pr
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”
“I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.”
“What is it with you and girlsâ€™ bathrooms?”
“The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?”
“When you have a choice, choose happy!”
“Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?”

Source : Song: Treat Her Like A Prostitute, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988
“Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.”
“Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.”