Deviant Quotes

“Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies who is who, who is foe, who is friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only, when the mind has become accustomed to the various facial types, people might drop their prejudices and their fear. (- "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as a threat to the very fabric of society. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy and the deviant, the decadents attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art.”
― Asti Hustvedt

“Deviant' is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.”
― Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs

“When you're accustomed to being considered 'normal', difference feels like a perversion.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.”
― Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

“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 second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.”
― Shuli Barzilai, Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

“Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of.”
― Amit Abraham

“He flashed a knowing grin. 'Sweet deviant. You like me bowing before you?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Hope is the most important ingredient of hell.”
― Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written

“Our demons are friends,”
― Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs

“Stop saying hurt.’ She turned on him; the wounded animal finally breaking free. ‘You fall over on the pavement, that hurts; you stub your toe, that hurts; you trap your finger in a car door, shit, that hurts. You did not hurt me. James. It was like you took a razor and pressed down hard in the tenderest place.”
― Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs

“Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.”
― Mark Dysan, The Evil Trance

“The world that she has entered has no place for morality; this world is primal, carnal, feral; amoral.
A world where ancient laws hold sway.
Judge her if you dare.”
― Billierosie, The Beast in Me

“The main goal of propaganda is to convince us that it’s not propaganda. And the most devious kind of propaganda is that which declares such statements as propaganda.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough