“The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.” SocialGroupsSocietyNormalAdultsConceptionRidiculeDepartureJuvenileSocial Groups Book:The Act of Creation Source: The Act of Creation
“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.” MaySocialAttitudeGroupsModernRevolutionNormalAtheistArguingDiscourseHomosexual Author:Philip Warren Anderson
“We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.” HumansEffortQualityRightsGroupsMaterialsNormalNewsOrganizationResponsibleHuman RightsHarmLawyerEngagementPublishing Author:Julian Assange
“Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.” MeanSaidClearGroupsNormalLet MeCourtDemocraticScaryAgendasHomosexualPromoting Author:Antonin Scalia
“Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.” PeopleIfsPersonsNextPerfectDoorsGroupsNormalConcernedFairsMoved Author:Nigel Farage
“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.” IfsWorldTryingFirstsTwoProblemThreeCommunityDealsGenerationsGroupsModernNormalFunctionOrganizedFadesDiminishWorld ProblemsThree GenerationsNormal Family Author:Ralph Borsodi
“There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10% of the population affected) and that these experiences exist on continua with healthy or 'normal' functioning: instead of the world falling into two groups (the psychotic and the non-psychotic) people vary in their disposition to psychosis and only a minority of people who have these experiences require or seek help.” PeopleWorldTwoHelpingFallCommonStudyGroupsHealthyNormalEvidencePopulationMinoritiesAffectedDispositionVaryPsychoticPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.” PeopleNeedsGivingMillionsFocusGroupsMinutesConversationNormalWorkersRageBordersFarmsFocus Groups Author:David Brooks
“Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook.” PeopleGroupsCollegeNormalConstitutionTinyUnleashedElectoral CollegeCabalPlaybooks Author:Van Jones
“I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.” PeopleJobsArtistFunGroupsMiddleNormalAppreciateHiking Author:Natalie Portman
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.” PeopleHomeGroupsNormalInstitutionsPrisonCuresParanormalJailGraduatesLocksSchoolmates Author:Scott Westerfeld