Quotes about Normalcy
Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
- Mark Batterson
Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.
- Mark Batterson
Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical.
- Mark Batterson
A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.
- Mark Vonnegut
The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.
- Craig Groeschel
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious.
- Oscar Wilde
Motivated by fear and driven by the elusive dream of normalcy, people will continue lining up for future jabs until the final one, which I believe is the mark of the Beast, fundamentally changes them into what the WEF states will cause people to "rethink what it means to be human.
- Terry James
We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...
- Virginia Woolf
I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...
- Charles Dickens
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
- Oscar Wilde
Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.
- Wendell Berry
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.
- Oscar Wilde