I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally…

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

— Ilona Andrews

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

— Anonymous

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

— Charles M. Blow

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

— Mary Daly

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

— Asti Hustvedt

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

— Kai Erikson

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.”

— Mark Dysan

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

— William S. Burroughs

“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…

— Shuli Barzilai

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

— David Lee

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

— Mario Bunge

Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society…

— William C. Brown