Quotes about abnormality
A collection of quotes on the topic of abnormality, normal, normalization, doing.
Quotes about abnormality

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press
The Satanic Bible (1969)

Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), p. 136.
“Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls.”
"Orson Welles" (1953), p. 65
Profiles (1990)

“In love, happiness is an abnormal state.”
[Le bonheur] est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919)

“There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.”
Il n'y avait pas d'anormaux quand l'homosexualité était la norme.
Pt. I
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922)

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

Interview on Channel 4 (1 June 1983) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjZOeL10MA&NR

"Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction", Californian 3, No. 3 (Winter 1935): 39-42. Published in Collected Essays, Volume 2: Literary Criticism edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 178
Non-Fiction

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 316
Non-Fiction, Letters

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (9 October 1931), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 423
Non-Fiction, Letters

To Leon Goldensohn, July 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.”
Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 500.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
“Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?”

“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

“Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”
EIMI (1933)
Context: My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?— No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
"In praise of counter-conduct," History of the Human Sciences, v. 24, n. 4

Interview in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979), p. 30.

Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.9 The Conformity Police
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I

Max Wertheimer (1924), cited in: Heinz L. Ansbacher (ed.), The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler. 1954, p. 11
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 57, section 3 (p. 686)

Speech in Belmont (25 January 1907), quoted in John Wilson, C.B.: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (London: Constable, 1973), p. 588
Prime Minister

On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)

Source: Disease-Proof Your Child (2005), Ch. 3, p. 102

To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Sean O'Hagan (2011) Dermot Healy: 'I try to stay out of it and let the reader take over http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/03/dermot-healy-interview-long-time, The Observer (3 April 2011)
"Before Ethics and Morality" (1972)
Harlow, H.F., Harlow, M.K., Suomi, S.J. From thought to therapy: lessons from a primate laboratory. 538-549; American Scientist. vol. 59. no. 5. September–October; 1971.
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80

The Specter Of Pro-Choice Eugenics http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/consistent/hentoff_eugenics.html (May 25, 1991)

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http://trivela.uol.com.br/mourinho-50-anos-as-melhores-frases-do-special-one/
2003
Wong Shun Leung's Answer on the Question of "Do you feel that Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) has any limitations ? Many students like to combine boxing with kicking , throwing and grappling on the ground to develop eclectic systems."
Mixed Martial Arts
Source: Interview with Wong Shun Leung, by: Rusper Patel http://www.gongsauwong.com/interview.php
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 393.

"The Children of the Pool", in The Children of the Pool and Other Stories (New York: Arno Press, [1936] 1976) p. 83.
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 126).
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 38-39.

p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
Introduction text.
A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology, (1990)

1963, President John F. Kennedy's last formal speech and public words

" Situation in Russia http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/malmstrom/situation-in-russia/", My Blog, European Commission, 17 January 2014.

Source: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. IV, p.48-49
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 11, The Negative Payoff to Risk, p. 113
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

After being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem

Quoted in Remembrance by Tom Johnson (September 1987)
“An Unread Book”, p. 5
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Frederick I. Herzberg in: "This Week’s Citation Classic," in: CC, Nr. 19, May 7, 1984; Re-published in: Neil J. Smelser (1987) Contemporary Classics in the Social and Behavioral Science. p. 199

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 194

Gautama Buddha in Digha Nikaya as quoted in Avatars down the ages by Felicity Elliot http://www.shareintl.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_fe-Avatars.htm
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Digha Nikaya (Long Discourses)

Source: What is Religion, of What does its Essence Consist? (1902), Chapter 11

Hardball with Chris Matthews, (2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8aqx6e403g
2000s, 2000

2010
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35811&TPN=4
Pedophilia

Source: No More Bull! (2005), Ch. 4: Alzheifer's Disease?, p. 56
“The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal.”
He Who Shapes (1965)
Context: The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal. The power of a neurosis is unimaginable to ninety-nine point et cetera percent of the population, because we can never adequately judge the intensity of our own — let alone those of others, when we only see them from the outside. That is why no neuroparticipant will ever undertake to treat a fullblown psychotic. The few pioneers in that area are all themselves in therapy today. It would be like driving into a maelstrom. If the therapist loses the upper hand in an intense session he becomes the Shaped rather than the Shaper. The synapses respond like a fission reaction when nervous impulses are artificially augmented. The transference effect is almost instantaneous.

The Pathway of Peace (1923)
Context: We may gain something in our quest for peace if we recognize at once that war is not an abnormality. In the truest sense, it is not the mere play of brute force. It is the expression of the insistent human will, inflexible in its purpose.
When we consider the inability to maintain a just peace attests to the failure of civilization itself, we may be less confident of the success of any artificial contrivances to prevent war. We must recognize that we are dealing with the very woof and warp of human nature. The war to end war has left its curse of hate, its lasting injuries, its breeding grounds of strife, and to secure an abiding peace appears to be more difficult than ever. There is no advantage to shutting our eyes to the facts; nor should we turn in disgust of panaceas to the counsel of despair. The pathway of peace is the longest and most beset with obstacles the human race has to tread; the goal may be distant, but we must press on.

“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.

… Acts of rebellion formerly regarded as manifestation of mere bestiality are now condoned as pathological outbursts; the possibility that such acts are the intentional projects of conscious men who are at once both demanding and expressing freedom is beyond the pale of conception. Thus are men robbed not only of their freedom but also of their dignity as creative human beings.
Source: Forced to be Free (1971), p. 68

319 U.S. 641-42
Judicial opinions, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Context: The case is made difficult not because the principles of its decision are obscure but because the flag involved is our own. Nevertheless, we apply the limitations of the Constitution with no fear that freedom to be intellectually and spiritually diverse or even contrary will disintegrate the social organization. To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the price is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.