…prominence and deviance are two ways of standing apart…

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.

— Neena Gupta

“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play…

— Tom Robbins

One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be…

— Ali Sina

Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality and family…

— Ali Sina

“But the rhetoric of deviance was far from extinct.”

— Alexis Coe

Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast…

— Anna Quindlen

Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in…

— Dennis Altman

Normal is the average of deviance.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rose McGowan

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

— Kai Erikson

Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've…

— Anonymous

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

— Frank Zappa

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get…

— Hal Duncan

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be…

— Benedict Cumberbatch