Deviation Quote by T.J. Kirk

“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?”

— Susan Neiman

“A crowd carries the social authority to redefine norms.”

— Jane McGonigal

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

— Susan Fiske

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we…

— Saba Qamar

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you…

— Stanley Fish

“Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm , which each one of us within our hearts knows…

— Audre Lorde

“Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,”

— Pierre Rosanvallon

Not everyone has it in them to go against the norms.. Not everyone has it in them to go by their feelings... Not everyone…

— Nidhi Saini

“…prominence and deviance are two ways of standing apart from society’s norms.”

— William R. Herzog II

“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in…

— Peter Singer

“People often take because they don’t realize that they’re deviating from the norm. In these situations, showing them the norm is often enough to…

— Adam M. Grant