The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.” — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.” — Kai Erikson Copy Share Image
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system… — Shuli Barzilai Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image