“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“Rudeness instantly establishes a set of norms, a set of regulatory orders, authority, and power. To be rude is to go against an established accepted concept or ordered regulation. Thus rudeness could be in kind, a deviation from the norm. Rudeness can also be in kind an instantiation outside a set foundation. A deviation from a norm holds the same set foundation as the norm, their disagreement merely a manner of degrees.”

“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.”

“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. ”

“When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.”