Norm Quotes

Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

There is no normal life, there's just life.

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

a normal human being ... does not exist.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?