“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.” PeopleMeanEndsPhilosophyHappensCertainValuesInterestAcceptingParticularNormalRelationInstitutionsUsualNoticing Author:Georges Canguilhem
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“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
“Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.” LawPoliticalIndividualLanguageSocialSpecialNormalInstitutionsUnitySentencesIgnorantSupposed To BeSubmissionPrerequisites Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus